Pentagon said execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, would be broadcast live

The US is facing worldwide condemnation over a “barbaric” plan to execute a disabled man by firing squad and livestream it to the public, with critics comparing the Trump administration to dictatorships in Iran and Afghanistan.

The Pentagon confirmed on Thursday that the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, convicted of killing 13 people at a military base at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009, would be livestreamed on 3 December.

The United Nations’ office of the high commissioner for human rights warned on Friday that broadcasting the killing would amount to a public execution and “breach the absolute prohibition of torture”.

  • voidsignal@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    it influences a ridiculously small portion of idiots that make a lot of noise that’s all. No other democracy has such a pool of bigots and idiots other than the US

    • Dæmon S.@catodon.rocks
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      17 hours ago

      it influences a ridiculously small portion of idiots

      No other democracy has such a pool of bigots and idiots other than the US

      Hi, a Brazilian here. 56,104,503 bolsonaristas (for contrast, there were 158,745,079 Brazilians registered to vote, from which only 125,275,835 went to the 2026 election day, with 53,879,538 of them having chosen to vote for the current POTBR Lula da Silva) (source, in Portuguese) doesn’t seem like a “ridiculously small” number to me…

      I even wonder, given the declining approval rates regarding the current POTUS, if the “number of people who carry water for christofascism” around here exceeds that of USA, even though USA has a larger population than Brazil (iirc, something around 500 mi and 200 mi respectively).

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        14 hours ago

        Dude really has his head in the sand regarding the global rise of right-populist-authoritarianism. I wish it was as simple as cutting ties with this garbage country while we sort it out (or collapse entirely) but the ones with real power aren’t confined to one place. That money spends everywhere.