On Dec.3, 2026, the U.S.
government intends to take Nidal Hasan to a firing range at Fort Hood and publicly execute him.Few condemned men could make a more difficult case for mercy.Seventeen years ago, Hasan, an Army psychiatrist at the time, walked into a soldier readiness center at the Texas Army post and opened fire, killing 13 people and wounding 32 others.Now, after years of appeals, the Army is preparing to execute him by firing squad.And Americans will be able to watch on live stream.That last detail has transformed what might otherwise have been the long-delayed conclusion of one of the darkest chapters in the Army's history into a more uncomfortable question: How should a nation reckon with the gravity of taking a life, even when that life belongs to a mass murderer?For Alonzo Lunsford, a former Army staff sergeant who survived being shot seven times by Hasan, the answer is complicated.GOP GOV DEWINE URGES OHIO TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY, SAYS IT IS NO LONGER A DETERRENTFort Hood victim Alonzo Lunsfords says he plans to attend Nidal Hasan's execution. Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S.
Army doctor identified by authorities as the mass shooter at the U.S.Army post in Fort Hood, Texas, is seen in this undated handout photo from a pdf file of the U.S.
Government Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences downloaded on November 6, 2009.U.S.
intelligence agencies learned the Army psychiatrist contacted an Islamist sympathetic to al Qaeda and relayed that information to authorities before he allegedly went on a shooting spree that killed 13 people in Texas last week, U.S.officials said on Monday.
(REUTERS/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences/Handout)Lunsford wants Hasan executed.He intends to witness it himself in December.
He told Fox News Digital he would even prefer that one of Hasan's surviving victims or the relatives of those he killed be allowed to pull the trigger.Despite that, Lunsford says he has forgiven Hasan."The we...