Former US army veterans have expressed support for the public execution of Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan amid intense public backlash to a proposal to livestream the event.

The scheduled execution of former Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who murdered 13 people at a military site in 2009, is set to be highly unusual.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the reason was so people could “understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things.”

Federal government urged to prevent Australians from viewing planned broadcast of Fort Hood mass murderer Nidal Hasan’s execution

As soldiers are already looking for a way out of Trump and Hegseth's brutal plan to live stream a firing squad execution at Fort Hood, his VP tries to distance himself from the brutality as well.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s announcement Thursday that the firing squad death of the Fort Hood mass shooter will be livestreamed was swiftly met with bipartisan criticism and questions over how the public execution will be carried out.

Nidal Malik Hasan, who is in a wheelchair, will be the first military personnel executed in 65 years in the US in December and the first public death penalty since 1936. Since Pete Hegseth became the US Secretary of Defense,