Roll
Call - Lawmakers in both parties are blasting the Defense
Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream the execution of the man convicted
of carrying out the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood.
“I absolutely support the
sentence of death, but live-streaming executions is what jihadists do. America
is better than that,” Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., a member of the House Armed
Services Committee, posted on
social media Friday morning.
Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., the
ranking member of the Armed Services Committee, similarly said in a statement
that the planned livestream is “disturbing and makes a mockery of our legal
system.”
“We are a democratic country and
should take the rule of law seriously, not turn it into a spectacle,” Smith
said.
Earlier this week, the Pentagon
announced that President Donald Trump had approved the execution by firing
squad of former Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who was convicted in 2013 and
sentenced to death for the shooting that killed 13 people and injured 32
others.
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