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Nidal Hasan and the Return of the Military Firing Squad
YouTube ^ | 8 OCT 2026 | Ryan McBeth

Posted on 10/08/2026 7:05:52 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

A scheduled military execution is set for December 3rd. We examine the procedures for the first such event in 65 years.

The U.S. military justice system has scheduled the execution of former Army Major Nidal Hassan at Fort Hood. This event marks a significant procedural milestone, as it would be the first time in over six decades that the armed forces have carried out a capital sentence.

Understanding how a firing squad operates requires looking at the specific regulations governing capital punishment. We break down the historical context and the legal framework that leads to this rare application of the death penalty.

(Excerpt) Read more at youtu.be ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: forthood

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Ten-minute video on the history and procedures for military executions.

Too good for this murderer...

1 posted on 10/08/2026 7:05:52 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

What we desperately need is a return to a speedy execution for capital offenses. The woman in TN has been on death row for, what, 20 years? That’s a travesty of justice.


2 posted on 10/08/2026 7:07:26 AM PDT by LouAvul (They're doing it again because you didn't hang them last time.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

All I want to know is WHEN


3 posted on 10/08/2026 7:09:53 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

My question is: Is he still a Major? My understanding is that a GCM conviction includes “forfeiture of all pay and allowances” along with a “reduction in rank to E1”


4 posted on 10/08/2026 7:18:54 AM PDT by atomic_dog
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To: atomic_dog

It’s remindful of Saddam’s trial. Deliberate and thorough. It gave winner’s justice the legs to stand on. This Hassan fella is no Sirhan Sirhan who is a hero to mid-easterners. My attention to this execution will be on the commentators and the amount of leftists out there that will go to bat for him.


5 posted on 10/08/2026 7:31:31 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: V_TWIN

“All I want to know is WHEN”

Execution is scheduled for December 3rd, 2026.

I would like to personally volunteer to pull through trigger. My only request is that all of my rounds are dipped in pig fat in preparation.


6 posted on 10/08/2026 7:34:45 AM PDT by Bshaw (There is a nefarious deceit upon us!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I think that this story would have a more positive spin for Trump if the media would keep repeating that this is the first military execution since JFK hanged a soldier for rape.

I’m not seeing JFK mentioned anywhere and it is sounding like this is radical Trump doing what he does, by the way, JFK had the black man hanged (lynched).


7 posted on 10/08/2026 7:41:40 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: DUMBGRUNT
In most cases in American military history, service members convicted of capital crimes were hanged. Cowardice or desertion in wartime was punished by firing squad, e.g., Eddie Slovik in World War II, but for criminal convictions for rape, murder, and so forth, the customary punishment was death by hanging. The German and Japanese military and civilian leaders were hanged for war crimes after World War II, for the most part, the justification being that the mass slaughtering of civilians and engaging in an unjust war were equivalent to criminal acts like murder and rape.

It seems that hanging would be the appropriate way to execute Hasan.

8 posted on 10/08/2026 7:45:50 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Bshaw

It not a commonly known fact that all of our military rifles are lubricated with a derivative of lard (pig fat)

(It’s not commonly known but it’s a great rumor to start)


9 posted on 10/08/2026 7:50:09 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: atomic_dog

“Is he still a Major?”

As part of the post-conviction process, military officials confirmed that he was forfeited of all military rank, formally dismissed from the Army, (dishonorably discharged) and stripped of all pay and allowances. At Leavenworth he is called inmate.

For a little more, here is a site:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidal_Hasan

wy69


10 posted on 10/08/2026 7:51:54 AM PDT by whitney69
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To: Wallace T.

While I’m disappointed that he won’t be hanged, I’m grateful that he will be taking a long overdue dirt nap on Tuesday, 3 December.


11 posted on 10/08/2026 7:58:42 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys many aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

As I have said before:
1) do it in front of a nearby mosque
2) use bullets dipped in bacon fat
3) make sure the coup-de-gras is messy
4) televise it

If any koranimal spectator yells ‘anyhoo snackbar’, drag it over and do it next.


12 posted on 10/08/2026 8:05:07 AM PDT by ByteMercenary (Election 2020 was stolen by mail-in voting. Mail-in voting and RCV counting should be abolished.)
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To: Mr. K

I have a bottle of bacon scented gin oil. Perhaps I should send it to the commander of the fort.


13 posted on 10/08/2026 9:44:21 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Use DEI shooters.

They might not hit the lethal areas, just smatter around other regions.


14 posted on 10/08/2026 10:23:58 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob ( My pronoun is EXIT. Generally full of /S -- Living with Havana Syndrome -infected from Main Stream)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

15 posted on 10/08/2026 12:00:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Wallace T.

He shot his victims!

SHOOT HIM!

GUT SHOOT HIM!


16 posted on 10/08/2026 3:02:51 PM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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