Trump ordered a firing squad for the Fort Hood gunman.

WASHINGTON — President Trump has ordered a firing squad for Nidal Hasan, the former Army major who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, the Pentagon said Monday night. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recommended the method. Trump approved it. Sean Parnell, the Pentagon spokesman, said the secretary of the Army will set the time and place, and added, “Judgment day for Hasan has finally come.”

Hasan, then a psychiatrist, was weeks from a deployment to Afghanistan. He shouted “Allahu Akbar” during the attack, killed 12 unarmed soldiers and a retired serviceman, and wounded 32. He said he was avenging American wars in the Muslim world. A court-martial convicted him in 2013 of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder and sentenced him to death. He is now 56, partially paralyzed, and uses a wheelchair from gunshot wounds at his arrest. Reuters reported that a firing squad would be the first American military execution by that method since 1945, and the first military execution of any kind since 1961.

Judgment day for Hasan has finally come.

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