Link: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10/10/riix-o10.html

The announcement by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth that the Pentagon will livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, marks a new stage in the descent of the American state into fascistic barbarism. The plan has provoked revulsion around the world.

Hasan is to be shot on December 3 by a squad of soldiers. It would be the first execution by the US military since 1961 and the first in the United States broadcast to the public. In an interview on the far-right outlet Real America’s Voice, Hegseth vowed to “make sure that people are able to watch it,” because “people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things.” The UN human rights office has said the broadcast would violate the absolute prohibition of torture.

Hegseth’s interviewer was Jack Posobiec, a fascist propagandist involved in the January 6 coup attempt, who opened the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference by declaring, “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely.”

...

To quell rebellion is literally the reason given.