Posted on 09/24/2025 11:40:47 AM PDT by DFG
The Department of War will ask President Donald Trump for final approval to execute the Fort Hood shooter, Nidal Hasan, a DOW official told the Daily Caller News Foundation exclusively.
The execution, if approved by Trump, would be the first carried out by the military since 1961. Hasan, a former Army Major and psychiatrist turned radical Islamic terrorist, killed 13 people and wounded 32 others during his notorious rampage on the Army base in 2009.
“I am 100 percent committed to ensuring the death penalty is carried out for Nidal Hasan,” Hegseth exclusively told the DCNF. “This savage terrorist deserves the harshest lawful punishment for his 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood. The victims and survivors deserve justice without delays.”
Hasan is currently imprisoned in the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Hasan lost his final appeal to his 2013 death sentence in April 2025, according to the San Antonio Express.
Under the Army’s regulations, the Army Secretary put forward the recommendation for Hasan’s execution. It was then passed to the Secretary of War to give “additional recommendation to the President,” the DOW official told DCNF.
“Inmate Hasan’s packet is now in the staffing process for presidential action,” the DOW official said.
Service members are governed by the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and thus are subject to different procedures should they receive the death sentence. Hasan is one of four people on military death row, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
Hasan told a military mental health panel that the shooting was justified because the victims were “going against the Islamic Empire,” according to the New York Times in 2014. However, the Army controversially decided not to pursue terrorism charges at the time, the Pentagon instead designating the shooting as “workplace violence.”
The Trump administration has consistently shown its willingness to exercise capital punishment as a valid form of justice for particularly heinous crimes.
The White House did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
Should have been done in his first term, but there wasn’t strong leadership at the Pentagon. Bunch of wusses. Time to take care of business.
Let Kimberly Munley volunteer to be on the firing squad.
“...30 minutes...”??????
Wtf?
How could you possibly trust him?
I think Hasan sits in a wheelchair these days and craps his pants.
Agree.
One should not be sidetracked by the "forgive / forget" discussions. A victim can forgive in the theological sense, but not -- and never -- forget, This is about the state punishing a soldier killer of other soldiers. UCMJ time.....
He is a psychologist last I heard.
He should use the auto-pen.
Obama attempted to save this rat bastard when he was President. “workplace violence” indeed.
No, not an MD. A psychiatrist.
Without hesitation. This man has already lived too long.
It has only been 16 years. Why get in such a big hurry?
Nidal Hasan should have received justice (death) long ago. His victims have paid with their lives, their loved ones have paid in different ways, the taxpayers have paid with their IRS confiscated dollars for his lodging, meals, and care. If every terrorist received such treatment there would be more terrorists. Oh wait...
Why is that foreign traitor even alive??
Who would want to be his patient?
Don’t forget to dip the bullets in bacon grease before using them.
Felons-no choice in the matter.
Better hurry before he dies of old age.
BO said this was just garden variety workplace violence. No Big Deal.
Oh hell yes
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