JUST IN: Fort Hood shooter's execution to be livestreamed
>> Sandra: THE PENTAGON N CONFIS. PLANS FOR THE FIRST LIVE. STREAMED EXECUTION IN U.S. HISTORY. FORT HOOD SHOOTER HASAN WILL. FACE A FIRING SQUAD IN DECEMBER. HE IS THE TERRORIST WHO OPENED. FIRE AT THE TEXAS MILITARY. INSTALLATION IN NOVEMBER 2009. HE KILLED 12 SOLDIER AND A. CIVILIAN AND WOUNDED 32 OTHERS.
EXECUTED THE SAME TIME AND DAY. OF THE WEEK AS THE SHOOTING. SURVIVOR OF THAT MASSACRE WITH. THIS. >> THE WAY THAT HE WENT ABOUT. DOING HIS DEED WAS A COWARD'S. WAY BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY. WAY TO DEFEND OURSELVES THAT. DAY. WHAT I CAN DO FOR THE ONES I. LOST THAT DAY IS LIVE FOR THEM. AND KEEP FIGHTING SO WE'LL NEVER. HAVE THAT TO HAPPEN AGAIN. >> Sandra: CHIEF NATIONAL. SECURITY CORRESPONDENT JENNIFER.
GRIFF YIP HAS MORE. >> THEY HAVE NOT EMOTION. EMPLOYED A FIRING SQUAD IN MORE. THAN 80 YEARS. THE LAST SERVICE MEMBER WAS A. PRIVATE WHO DESERTED HIS UNIT. TWICE IN WORLD WAR II. AS THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN YESTERDAY. SECRETARY HEGSETH ANNOUNCED THE. EXECUTION WOULD TAKE PLACE ON. DECEMBER 3RD AND LIVE STREAMED. >> NO-BRAINER. EXECUTION BY FIRING SQUAD.
MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE ARE ABLE. TO WATCH IT. THAT IT IS PUBLIC BECAUSE PEOPLE. NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE. ARE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES FOR. THESE TYPES OF THINGS. >> HE IS A FORMER ARMY. PSYCHIATRIST AND HE KILLED 13. AND WOUNDED 32 ON DECEMBER 3, 2009. MANY SOLDIERS WERE PREPARING TO. DEPLOY TO THE MIDDLE EAST. THE MOST DEADLY SHOOTING ON A.
MILITARY INSTALLATION EVER. HE HAD BEEN IN CONTACT WITH AL. QAEDA LEADER BEFORE THE ATTACK. AND HIS TRIAL HIS ACTIONS WERE. MOTIVATED BY A DESIRE TO HELP. THE TALIBAN. HE WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN. 2013 AND HELD ON DEATH ROW IN. KANSAS EVER SINCE. HE IS WHEELCHAIR BOUND. PARALYZED FROM THE WAIST DOWN. AFTER BEING SHOT FOUR TIMES BY. LAW ENFORCEMENT DURING HIS. ATTACK. THE U.S. CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC. BISHOPS AND OTHER RELIGIOUS.
GROUPS HAVE DENOUNCED THE. PLANNED PUBLIC EXECUTION QUOTE. THE WORD OF GOD EXHORTS US DO. NOT REPAY ANYONE EVIL FOR EVIL. THE PUBLIC EXECUTION OF ONE WHO. HAS DONE GREAT HARM WILL ONLY. FURTHER UNDER MINE THE FABRIC OF. OUR NATIONS AND A BLIGHT ON ITS. PEOPLE. IT HAS ELICITED SHOCK AMONG. RETIRED MILITARY OFFICERS. >> THE IDEA OF LIVESTREAMING AN. EXECUTION IS WHAT THE TALIBAN. AND THE IRANIANS DO.
THAT IS NOT WHAT THE UNITED. STATES SHOULD BE DOING. WE ARE BETTER THAN THAT. SO I THINK THIS IS A DISGRACE. THAT WE ARE PUBLICLY --. >> THE LIVE STREAMED EXECUTION. RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT WHICH. AMERICAN SOLDIERS WILL BE. ORDERED TO CARRY OUT THE. KILLING. THE IMPACT ON THEM AND THEIR. FAMILIES, THE U.S. MILITARY DOES. NOT HAVE A STAND.
