The Pentagon's move would allow the public to witness an execution for the first time in almost a century.

The Pentagon's plans to live-stream a military execution would put it on a very short list of nations to execute someone publicly.

The U.S. military plans to livestream the Dec. 3 execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting.

The Pentagon said on Thursday that it would livestream the firing squad execution of the man who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base in 2009, raising questions about the legality of the unprecedented announcement.

Allowing the world to watch Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan face the firing squad in December would make it the first public execution since two hangings in the 1930s in Kentucky and Missouri

Republican and Democratic lawmakers condemn Pentagon plan to livestream Fort Hood shooter's execution by firing squad.

Helen McEntee, Ireland's Minister for Foreign Affairs, has responded after US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced plans to livestream the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, who was convicted of murder and attempted murder after he opened fire at a US military base in Texas in 2009.

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The chair of the Federal Communications Commission said on Friday that he would defer to the Pentagon on whether US networks could air a planned December 3 military execution,

The execution by firing squad of former US Army major Nidal Hasan will be livestreamed for the public to watch, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said. This will make it the first public execution in the US since 1936, and the prospect has already been described as "medieval".