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The Australian Greens have called for the federal government to block the live stream of a US military execution, describing it as 'barbaric'.

The Greens want to prevent Australians from viewing the planned broadcast of the execution of Fort Hood mass murderer Nidal Hasan.

However, the federal government has not indicated that it will take action to block the live stream.

The execution is scheduled to take place on Wednesday.