Former Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan will be executed by firing squad on Dec. 3 at Fort Hood, the same Texas post where he killed 13 people and injured 32 others in a 2009 shooting.
Acting Army Secretary Adam R. Telle announced the date and location Tuesday, following Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s recommendation and President Trump’s approval of the death sentence.
Hasan was a major in the Army’s medical corps and self-identified as an Islamic jihadist. He carried out the attack on unarmed soldiers at Fort Hood under that ideology, officials said.
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He was stripped of his rank and dishonorably discharged following his August 2013 court-martial.
Hasan opened fire at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at the Fort Hood military base on Nov. 5, 2009. The facility coordinated administrative and medical clearances for troops before their deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan or upon their return from overseas.
Hasan was shot and arrested by Fort Hood civilian police officers who responded to the gunfire.
The commandant of the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, will be the execution officer, according to Tuesday’s memo from the acting Army secretary.
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