Hegseth announced last week that the US public would be able to see the execution of Nidal Hasan, which is set for 3 December at Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan, a former army major and psychiatrist, killed 13 people and wounded 32 at Fort Hood in 2009. A military court sentenced him to death in August 2013.

“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public,” Hegseth said. “It was a radical Islamist attack in uniform inside the ranks, and so he’s going to get a firing squad of soldiers – as it should be.”

The de facto leader of Hegseth’s theocratic Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), Douglas Wilson, welcomed the announcement.

  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today
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    Conservatives are inherently blood-thirsty. They are violent by nature and celebrate the suffering of others. This is why every genocide in human history has been led exclusively by conservatives.

    Conservatism is pure evil. Never trust a conservative. And never, ever leave a conservative alone with a child.

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      Christians certainly do. They put his method of execution on all their jewellery and art and stuff. Imagine if he’d been hanged or guillotined or shot? Imagine a bunch of Christians wandering around with gun pins and badges. People might get the impression they’re pro-violence or something. Wouldn’t that be crazy?

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      It’s just like he said: “If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, hold a public execution for him.”

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      Just for the record it’s “murder”, not “kill”.

      Murder is the unjustified killing of another, and to be clear, their god justified bashing babies against rocks over an imagined slight that didn’t happen hundreds of years prior,

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        Also their god thought an appropriate response to children making fun of a bald guy was sending bears to maul them.

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    For what it’s worth, the orange man put out a Truth or whatever today that says the live stream is off, but the firing squad is going ahead.

    The polling was like 80% against the live stream.

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      Yeah. That actually boosted my faith in humanity somewhat, for the first time in years.