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Politics · Courts & law · published 2026-10-09 · via GovBrief

Hegseth Wants Public Broadcast of Scheduled Execution

The secretary of defense wants the public to be able to watch a condemned inmate's execution through a Pentagon broadcast. According to the roundup, the scheduled firing squad death would be the first televised execution in U.S. history, with the last public one occurring roughly nine decades ago. The briefing also touches on Iran and immigration.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the public could watch Nidal Hasan’s scheduled execution via a Pentagon broadcast. The punishment is set for 1 p.m. Central on the Thursday after Thanksgiving, the same hour as the 2009 Fort Hood attack. The article says no U.S. execution has been televised, and the last public execution was a Kentucky hanging about 90 years ago.

The roundup also notes that

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