President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist who shot dead 13 people at a military base in 2009. The Pentagon announced the approval on Monday. Hasan's execution for the attack at Fort Hood in Texas, which also wounded more than two dozen people, will be the first carried out by the US military since 1961. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recommended the execution, and the Secretary of the Army will set the time and place.
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