Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan’s execution set for December

The execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who was convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooting, is set for December, according to the U.S. Army.

The Tuesday memo, obtained by The Hill’s partner network NewsNation, lists the time as Dec. 3 at 1 p.m. CDT. It will be carried out at the Fort Hood base in Central Texas.

On Monday, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell announced on social platform X that Hasan was sentenced to death by firing squad. Parnell, who has been floated as the next Army secretary, said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “recommended” the death penalty and President Trump “approved it.”

“Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J. Trump has approved — death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009,” Parnell said in his post.

Hasan is a convicted terrorist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at the base, killing 13 people and injuring 32 others. During the incident, the ex-Army psychiatrist was heard shouting, “Allahu Akbar.”

During the 2013 trial, Hasan opted to represent himself, saying in his opening statement that “the evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter.”

He later added the evidence would find “that we are imperfect Muslims trying to establish the perfect religion … I apologize for any mistakes I made in this endeavor.”

Hasan said he carried out the shooting in response to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The incident came one month before the then-soldier was scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan.