Americans interviewed by Fox News Digital were overwhelmingly pleased with President Donald Trump's decision to call off livestreaming the Fort Hood shooter’s planned firing squad execution after the Pentagon had announced it would be livestreamed for public viewing."I'm really glad that he called it off, because I feel like it's not really a deterrent, it's more like a shock effect," Sylvia from Arizona told Fox News Digital."I don't think we really need that in this country right now.""The only other countries that really do that are like North Korea," David from Arizona said.
"We don't want to be North Korea."AMERICANS DRAW THE LINE AT LIVESTREAMING ‘SPECTACLE’ OF FORT HOOD SHOOTER'S EXECUTION: ‘IT’S AN ABOMINATION’President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un talk before a meeting in the Demilitarized Zone on June 30, 2019, in Panmunjom, Korea.(Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)"I never approved of the idea of it being public in the first place," Nate from Virginia said.
"I think it's just ridiculous to make a spectacle out of an execution, especially in 2026 of all time."War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced earlier this month that Nidal Hasan’s execution, set for Dec.3, would be publicly available via livestream.Trump took to Truth Social on Thursday to announce that while livestreaming the execution could serve as a deterrent to terrorism, the execution would not be available for public viewing as he acknowledged that many Americans would rather not witness Hasan's death."He will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed," Trump wrote on Truth Social.FORT HOOD SURVIVORS PRAISE TRUMP FOR SCRAPPING HASAN EXECUTION LIVESTREAM: ‘WE’RE NOT BARBARIC’President Donald Trump announced that the execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan would not be livestreamed, reversing an earlier Pentagon announcement that the execution would be livestreamed to the public.
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