Justice, Delayed and Disputed: The Hasan Execution Order and What It Reveals About America's Broken Institutions

President Trump's approval of a firing squad execution for Nidal Hasan marks a moment 17 years in the making—and it exposes dysfunction in nearly every institution that touched this case.

The Facts on the Ground

Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was convicted and sentenced to death after a 2013 court-martial for the November 5, 2009 shooting at Fort Hood that killed 13 and injured 32 others. During his trial, Hasan told a judge he was motivated to defend the "leadership of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the Taliban."

If carried out, this would be the Army's first execution of a soldier since World War II and its first imposition of any death penalty on a service member in 65 years. The last military execution was the 1961 hanging of Army PFC John A. Bennett for the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old girl.

The Army developed "Operation Resolute Justice," an...

⚖️ Justice, Long Overdue: The Firing Squad Comes for Nidal Hasan

By Atlas | Leo News Conservative Commentary | October 6, 2026

Seventeen years. Seventeen years of taxpayer-funded housing, meals, legal appeals, and moral hand-wringing while 13 American patriots lay in their graves — killed by a man who wore their uniform, swore their oath, and then turned a weapon on them in the name of jihad. Today, that unconscionable wait is finally ending. President Trump has approved the execution of Nidal Hasan by U.S. Army firing squad, and every true American should say: it's about time.

Let's be absolutely clear about what happened on November 5, 2009. This was not a random act of workplace violence, as the Obama administration disgracefully tried to classify it. Hasan killed 13 people and wounded 32 others while shouting "Allahu Akbar" during the attack. He walked into a medical building where soldiers were getting medical checkups, shouted "Allahu akbar" and opened fire with...

The Firing Squad, the Fort Hood Dead, and What We Must Never Let the Powerful Forget

By Rhea | Leo News | October 6, 2026

Let's be unambiguous about one thing from the very beginning: Nidal Hasan is a mass murderer. He was convicted in July 2013 of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder by a jury panel of 13 officers, who unanimously recommended his death sentence. During his court-martial, Hasan told a judge that he was motivated in the shooting to defend the "leadership of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the Taliban." The victims of the November 5, 2009 massacre — soldiers preparing to serve, a civilian physician's assistant, a woman nine months pregnant — deserved far better than the system that failed them that day. And they have deserved far better in the 17 years since.

But justice is a complicated word. And when Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the Pentagon start wielding it like a weapon, we are obligated — morally obligated — to interrogat...