Staff Reports
President Donald Trump has approved a long-delayed measure of justice: the Army will carry out convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan’s death sentence by firing squad, and the Army has scheduled the execution for December 3 at 1 p.m. Central — the same hour the terrorist unleashed his slaughter. For seventeen years families and fellow soldiers have waited for accountability; this administration and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have moved to close a dark chapter and restore respect for our troops. Patriots should welcome a government that honors victims and refuses to hide uncomfortable truths behind euphemisms.
Justice by Soldiers, Not Spin
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recommended the firing squad and President Trump approved the method — a decision that matches the severity of Hasan’s crime and the unique military context of a court-martial conviction. The Army has said soldiers with rifles will carry out the sentence, ending decades without a military execution and signaling that service members who betray their oath will face the full consequence. This isn’t vengeance; it is the rule of law applied where civilian courts and past administrations equivocated.
Reclaiming the Narrative
Scheduling the execution at the same hour the attack occurred is not theatrics but a moral correction: for years the Pentagon’s early language labeled the massacre as “workplace violence,” a phrase that obscured Islamist radicalization and insulted victims. The Obama-era messaging failed grieving families by softening the motive, and conservatives are right to call that out as a dereliction of duty to truth and national security. If Washington learned anything from 9/11, it should be that naming the enemy is the first step toward defeating him.
Livestream Controversy and Outrage from the Usual Suspects
Mr. Hegseth has said the event will be public and viewable, a transparency argument that has stunned international human-rights bureaucracies, liberal clerics, and cable-TV moralists who call it “medieval.” Their outrage rings hollow when compared to the silence that followed in past years when our soldiers were slaughtered and the motive was papered over. If livestreaming a lawful, military execution provides closure for victims’ families and exposes jihadi savagery, patriotic Americans should not flinch because elites prefer sterilized narratives.
What Patriots Should Demand Next
Legal challenges and delay tactics are likely, and that is how Washington often protects its sensitivities, but the primary obligation of government is to the victims and to national security, not to international opinion polls. Americans who stand for law and order should press for transparency about the plan, insist that the military follow legal safeguards, and refuse to accept cowardly equivocation from politicians who won’t face the truth. This administration has a chance to deliver long-awaited justice for Fort Hood families — and every patriot should support seeing it through.
