More than 17 years after the Fort Hood massacre, the terrorist who murdered 13 people at the Texas Army post is scheduled to face a firing squad at the same installation.
The Army has set December 3, 2026, at 1 p.m. Central for the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, following President Donald Trump’s approval of his death sentence. Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle announced the time and location in an order issued Tuesday, according to Army Times and ABC News.
Trump approved the execution order on October 2. The Pentagon publicly announced the decision Monday, saying Secretary of War Pete Hegseth had recommended that Hasan be put to death by an Army firing squad.
If carried out, the execution would be the first by the U.S. military since 1961.
“Judgement day for Hasan has finally come,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in announcing the president’s approval.
A Massacre At The Post He Served
Hasan was an Army major and psychiatrist when he opened fire at Fort Hood’s Soldier Readiness Processing Center on November 5, 2009. The attack killed 12 soldiers and one civilian and wounded 32 others.
Witnesses reported that Hasan shouted “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire. Among those killed was a pregnant soldier.
At his court-martial, Hasan admitted carrying out the shooting. Military Times reported that he sought to argue he had acted in defense of the Taliban leadership in Afghanistan.
A military jury convicted him of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder in 2013. He was sentenced to death and sent to the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Hegseth’s Push Reaches A New Milestone
The execution order follows Hegseth’s September 2025 push for Trump to approve Hasan’s death sentence.
“The victims and survivors deserve justice without delays,” Hegseth said at the time, according to The Daily Wire’s reporting.
After Monday’s announcement, Hegseth responded with a single word on social media: “Justice.”
The Army’s decision to carry out the sentence at Fort Hood would return Hasan to the installation where he committed the murders. The last U.S. military execution took place in 1961, when Army Pvt. John Bennett was hanged at Fort Leavenworth after being convicted of rape and attempted murder.
Legal Challenges Could Still Delay Execution
The December date does not guarantee that the execution will proceed as scheduled.
An analysis published in the Army Lawyer in May explains that presidential approval allows a military death-row prisoner to seek review in the civilian federal courts through a habeas corpus petition challenging the legality of the conviction or confinement.
A prisoner can also ask a federal judge to stay the execution while that challenge proceeds. If granted, a stay would prevent the military from carrying out the sentence until the court proceedings conclude or the stay is lifted.
Trump’s approval and the Army’s order move Hasan’s case toward an execution after years on death row.
This is a perfect example of the reason that death penalty sentences should be carried out ASAP after the trial is concluded. There should be only one appeal that makes sure there were no procedural errors during the trial: otherwise that’s it. My belief is based on the Biblical requirement of a death sentence for ANY murder regardless of the circumstances. PLEASE notice my words carefully; I said murder and not the generic word killing.
Ecclesiastes 8:11
Agreed. And capital punishment should also apply to cop killers, terrorists, and child molesters. And the “gays for Gaza” clowns, who are too ignorant to live.
Justice for those effected day 1
ELEPHANT-IN-THE-ROOM ALERT!
Question: How is it that Malik Hasan (and his fellow Muslims) ever got into America to begin with, let alone to become a part of America’s military?
Answer: The First Commandment-violating, polytheism-enabling First Amendment.
The First Commandment was replaced with the First Amendment and today’s America is riddled with the Mosques and the Temples and Synagogues of other anti-Christs, per 2 John 1:7-11.
Had America, instead, been founded upon the Bible’s moral law as the law of the land, beginning with the First Commandment as its foundational border law – in turn, requiring all immigrants and visitors to leave their gods, laws, and cultures at the border, under the penalty of death if apprehended proliferating the same – there would be no Muslims in America. They would never agree to such a law and would look elsewhere to do their dirty work.
For more, see Chapter 11 “Amendment 1: Government-Sanctioned Polytheism” of free online book “Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective” at bible versus constitution dot org. Click on the top entry on our Online Book page and scroll down to Chapter 11.
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All of his appeals should have been exhausted by this time and only a rogue judge will prevent this execution from taking place on December 3, 2026. The only thing that should prevent this execution would be the second coming of Christ when he comes to judge the living and the dead; the righteous still living will join the resurrected for eternal life with God and the unrighteous living and dead for eternal damnation in Hell. Since he has rejected the Christian faith and worships the false God of Islam he will receive eternal damnation in the torments of Hell.
There is a difference between loving the sinner and hating the sin. When someone violates the rights of others to live because of an especially biased and hateful religion, their actions define and determine which path we must take in preserving our own lives, tights, and existence.
Murderers forfeit their rights as citizens and the law of this land.
Evil must be eliminated from the occasion and rewarding someone with years of food and shelter for committing such heinous crimes is itself a crime against society.
This should have ended over 16 years ago. It’s a tragedy to all of the victims and their families to have delayed it so long.
Such actions perpetrated by this islamic jihadist should never be allowed again by anyone who shares his beliefs, including democrat socialists hiding in the democrat party.
NIDAL HASAN’S EXECUTION: BOTH BIBLICAL & UNBIBLICAL
Unbiblical in that Hasan was not executed immediately upon conviction. In turn, his execution will loose some of its intended deterrent effect. Worse:
“Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.” (Ecclesiastes 8:11)
Also unbiblical in that his victims’ next of kin and his witness should make up the bulk of the firing squad.
Biblical in that Hasan’s execution will be public, intended for its deterrent effect.
For more, see free online book “Capital Punishment: Deterrent or Catalyst?” at bible versus constitution dot org. Go to our Online Book page and scroll down to title.
See also Chapter 14 “Amendment 5: Constitutional vs. Biblical Judicial Protection” of free online book “Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.” Click on the top entry on our Online Book page and scroll down to Chapter 14.
Then Chapter 17 “Amendment 8: Bail, Fines, and Cruel and Unusual Punishments.”