The execution of Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, will be the military's first firing squad execution since WW2 The Army announced this week that the execution would take place at Fort Hood on Dec. Key points and original sources are listed below.

• The execution of Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, will be the military's first firing squad execution since WW2S1

• The Army announced this week that the execution would take place at Fort Hood on Dec. 3.S2

• US Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth had said that Nidal Hasan would be executed by firing squad and that it would be done "in public." Hasan's execution will be the first by the US military since 1961.S3

• An official at the Pentagon told Al Jazeera that former US Army Major Nidal Hasan's execution would be 'livestreamed'.S4

• The public will be able to watch the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people in 2009, after Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed it will be livestreamed.S5

• Mr. Hegseth said the military hasn’t executed a servicemember by firing squad since World War IIS6

• If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.S7

• “No-brainer. Execution by firing squad. Army major betrays his country, radical Islamist kills a bunch of Americans at Fort Hood. Of course we're going to do it at Fort Hood. We're going to do it on a Thursday. We're going to do it at 1:00, which is when he di...S8