More than 16 years after the deadly attack at Fort Hood, Texas, the man convicted of murdering 13 Americans is finally facing an execution date.
President Donald Trump has approved the execution of former Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by U.S. Army firing squad following a recommendation from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
The decision represents a dramatic conclusion to one of the darkest attacks ever carried out on an American military installation. Hasan, an Army psychiatrist at the time, opened fire on soldiers at Fort Hood on November 5, 2009, killing 13 people and wounding 32 others. He was later convicted of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder and sentenced to death in 2013.
The attack immediately sparked a fierce debate over how the government should classify the massacre.
