Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed

The Pentagon has announced that the execution of Nidal Hasan, the former army psychiatrist who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, will be a public event. Hasan will be executed by firing squad on 3 December.

A defense department official later confirmed that the execution will be livestreamed. Hasan was convicted in 2013 and sentenced to death in 2014.