New Delhi, Oct. 7 -- The Pentagon on Monday (local time) announced that it would use a firing squad to execute Nidal Hasan, a former US Army major who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009 in an attack the gunman later described as retaliation for US wars in the Muslim world. The execution would be the first military execution in over 60 years.

In a post on X, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said, "Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended - and President Donald J. Trump has approved - death by US Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009. He killed 13 people and wounded 32 others while shouting 'Allahu Akbar' during the attac...