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Retired US generals call on Pentagon to cancel 'barbaric' execution livestream

Livestreaming the execution of Nidal Hasan "will taint the honor of the military that employs it, and a nation that allows it," 72 former officers said in a letter.

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BBC News· Oct 15, 2:26 AMRetired US generals call on Pentagon to cancel 'barbaric' execution livestream

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Majority of Americans oppose public executions: pollA new survey found the majority of Americans opposed publicly broadcast executions ahead of the Pentagon’s planned livestreamed execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. In the YouGov poll, 71 percent of respondents opposed “having executions broadcast live to the public,” while 18 favored it and 13 percent were not sure. Along partisan lines,...

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U.S. Miltary Archbishop Says Catholic Soldiers Shouldn't Serve On Firing SquadArchbishop Timothy Broglio, who oversees Catholic pastoral services for the U.S. military, is condemning the proposed livestream of Nidal Hasan's firing squad execution.

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Even Mike Johnson Thinks Livestreaming an Execution Is Going Too FarEven Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson disapproves of the Trump administration’s planned live execution of Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan. Johnson made his position known during a CBS News interview over the weekend. “The concern would be that it would create a video that would be a recruiting tool for future terrorists,” Johnson said. “I wouldn’t be…

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Republicans, evangelicals oppose livestreamed execution: What does Trump say?A growing number of GOP lawmakers and religious leaders are speaking out about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream the execution of former Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan.

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UN Says Trump-Hegseth Livestream of Execution Would Breach ‘Absolute Prohibition of Torture’As rights advocates across the US expressed horror at the Trump administration's confirmed plans to publicly broadcast the execution of Nidal Hasan, the former military psychiatrist who was convicted of killing 13 people in a mass shooting at Fort Hood in 2009, the top United Nations human rights expert warned that the public state killing would violate…

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