{"id":79737,"date":"2026-10-09T07:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/un-says-pentagon-plan-to-livestream-execution-of-fort-hood-shooter-would-amount-to-torture-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T07:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:55:06","slug":"un-says-pentagon-plan-to-livestream-execution-of-fort-hood-shooter-would-amount-to-torture-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/un-says-pentagon-plan-to-livestream-execution-of-fort-hood-shooter-would-amount-to-torture-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"UN says Pentagon plan to livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter would amount to torture \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Condemnation comes amid fierce backlash from US lawmakers who branded the move \u2018grotesque\u2019 and compared it to actions of some terror groups and oppressive governments<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/08\/hegseth-fort-hood-shooter-public-execution\">Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the US Breaking News email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While there has been bipartisan backlash to Pete Hegseth\u2019s announcement that the Department of Defense plans to livestream Nidal Hasan\u2019s execution in December \u2013 some hard-right Republicans have welcomed the news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic execution is what this terrorist deserves,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/repogles\/status\/2108530267967324389?s=46\">said<\/a> <strong>Andy Ogles<\/strong>, a GOP congressman from Tennessee.<strong> \u201cWe will be watching.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/oct\/09\/pentagon-fort-hood-livestream-firing-squad-execution-reaction-backlash-pete-hegseth-donald-trump-mussolini-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Condemnation comes amid fierce backlash from US lawmakers who branded the move \u2018grotesque\u2019 and compared it to actions of some terror groups and oppressive governments Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed Sign up for the US Breaking News email While there has been bipartisan backlash to Pete Hegseth\u2019s announcement that the &#8230; <a title=\"UN says Pentagon plan to livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter would amount to torture \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/un-says-pentagon-plan-to-livestream-execution-of-fort-hood-shooter-would-amount-to-torture-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about UN says Pentagon plan to livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter would amount to torture \u2013 US politics live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}