President Trump Orders Firing Squad Execution for Fort Hood Gunman Nidal Hasan

President Donald J. Trump has approved the death by U.S. Army firing squad for Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 31 in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution. This decision follows the Trump administration's recent expansion of permissible federal execution methods to include firing squad, electrocution, and gas asphyxiation, partly due to difficulties in obtaining lethal injection drugs.