News Summary

• Trump now says ‘people would rather not watch’ Nidal Hasan die.
• He will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed.
• That said, the execution may be viewed in person by the immediate families of the victims, if they so choose.
• Hasan, a former US Army major, was convicted of killing 13 people at a Texas military base in 2009.
• If Hasan’s execution had been livestreamed, it would have reportedly been the first public execution in the US since the 1930s.