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The execution of a former US army psychiatrist by firing squad is to be livestreamed after Pete Hegseth said it would be a public event. Nidal Hasan was sentenced to death after killing 13 people at a military base in Texas in 2009. There has been widespread condemnation of the decision, including from the UN which said it would ‘amount to torture’. Lucy Hough speaks to US academic and capital punishment specialist Austin Sarat, the author of Life After Death: Surviving Execution – watch on YouTube. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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This is The Guardian. Whatever it is that this country stood for and embodied, somehow this administration is determined to tear down bit by bit.
From the Guardians Today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hough. Well, this has been a very grim and shocking story to end the week on.
Pete Hegseth, the US Secretary of Defense, has ordered a military execution which will be live streamed. Austin Sarat, you are a US academic specializing in capital punishment.
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