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Oct 9, 2026
Kevin KietzmanHOST
Like, this is the worst human on earth, Malik Hasan, the worst terrorist ever.
Kevin KietzmanHOST
And so they want to have death by firing squad, and you've heard a lot about this.
Kevin KietzmanHOST
And so the questioner started asking Pete Hegseth some questions about how this was gonna go down.
Mark Van SickleHOST
Execution by firing squad.
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speaker_2UNKNOWN
Um, I was just ecstatic when I heard it, and then I saw Donald Trump's tweet from maybe the day of, the day after, back in 2013.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
He called this immediately.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
He's like, "Death by firing squad.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
Get it done."
DanPANELIST
Yeah.
Ethan KleinHOST
Oh, yeah, we were, we were talking about that, um, we're bringing firing squads back.
speaker_27PANELIST
Livestreamed.
DanPANELIST
Livestream, right.
Pete HegsethSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, he's gonna get a firing squad of soldiers, as it should be, and we'll make sure that people are able to, to watch it, that it's public, uh, because people need to understand that w- this is, uh, there's serious consequences for these types of things.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Senator, the execution by firing squad, just on its face, would be the first of its kind carried out by the United States Army since World War II.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Obviously, live-streaming it for anybody to be able to watch it for themselves is unprecedented.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Your reaction?
speaker_0HOST
And meanwhile in, in Texas, Steve, which also has the death penalty, Donald Trump has ordered the use of a firing squad to kill Nidal Hasan, the former US Army psychiatrist who killed thirteen people at Fort Hood in Texas in two thousand and nine.
speaker_0HOST
I-- Is that a reaction to what's happened in Tennessee? Firing squads aren't common in the US, are they?
Steve FuttermanCORRESPONDENT
Uh, n-not common, but they have been used.
Steve FuttermanCORRESPONDENT
You may recall, if you go way back in the US saga with the death penalty, the first person executed after, um, many years of, of delays and not having any execution was, was a man named Gary Gilmore in Utah, and he actually was executed by firing squad.
Steve FuttermanCORRESPONDENT
That's viewed as a bit more humane than other methods.
Steve FuttermanCORRESPONDENT
Obviously, the result is the same.
Steve FuttermanCORRESPONDENT
But, uh, the lethal injection seems to be the choice of most states now, but there are instances where you do have firing squads.
speaker_0HOST
Steve, thank you.
Travis IrvineHOST
yeah yeah i guess you're right i guess because especially recent news krista pike
Seena GhaznaviHOST
yeah completely botched lethal injection i think she's in a coma good lord five states now allow firing squads oh really so first of all can we just for a moment here yeah talk about the death penalty
Travis IrvineHOST
Sure.
Travis IrvineHOST
We talked about right to die last week.
Crystal WalkerGUEST
She is, and the unfortunate part about it is that a lot of states are not doing the injections, the lethal injections anymore.
Crystal WalkerGUEST
They're doing firing squads.
Crystal WalkerGUEST
Can you imagine? Can you imagine being-
Adrian GoldbergHOST
That is, that is, that is incredible in this day and age.
Wolf BlitzerHOST
And the chosen meth- method for his execution is one that hasn't been used since World War II.
Wolf BlitzerHOST
[Instrumental music] New this morning, President Trump has approved the US Army's first execution by firing squad since World War II.
Wolf BlitzerHOST
Former Army Major Nidal Hasan admitted to carrying out the 2009 massacre over at Fort Hood in Texas.
Wolf BlitzerHOST
13 people were killed, 32 people were wounded in the nation's deadliest mass shooting at Amer- at an American military base.
Devan CostaHOST
Then when they do kill her, it's got to be so anticlimactic.
ConnorHOST
Imagine, like, back in the day, like, Death by Firing Squad, and everyone just unloads a clip, and then the guy goes, oof, ah,
Devan CostaHOST
ah, oof.
Devan CostaHOST
Yeah,