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Fort Hood shooter to be executed by firing squad - a first for US military since World War Two
The Pentagon has announced it will execute a former US Army major by firing squad, the first such military execution in more than 60 years.
Nidal Malik Hasan, a US Army major and physician, fatally shot 13 unarmed US soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009, injuring another 32.
Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell announced on social media on Monday that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth had made the recommendation and President Donald Trump approved it.
It will be the first military execution by firing squad since the end of World War Two.
Hasan was convicted of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder by a jury panel of 13 officers, which unanimously recommended his death sentence.
Parnell said the Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution.
"Judgement day for Hasan has finally come," he wrote on X.
Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist from Virginia, killed 13 soldiers at the base in Texas in 2009 and later admitted in court he was the gunman and apologised for "any mistakes".
He said during his court-martial in 2013 that he believed he was protecting Muslims and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The killings on 5 November 2009 were the deadliest ever non-combat attack on an American military base.