{"id":75730,"date":"2023-03-28T12:28:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T12:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/03\/28\/us-could-carry-out-its-first-military-execution-in-over-60-years\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:54:07","slug":"us-could-carry-out-its-first-military-execution-in-over-60-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2023\/03\/28\/us-could-carry-out-its-first-military-execution-in-over-60-years\/","title":{"rendered":"US could carry out its first military execution in over 60 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A former soldier on military death row for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, could face execution after the nation\u2019s top military court hears the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ex-Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, 52, is set for his case to stand before the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces on Tuesday for what is largely considered the deadliest mass shooting ever on a United States military installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2019\/11\/05\/the-mass-shooting-at-fort-hood-was-10-years-ago-on-nov-5-2009\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nov. 5, 2009<\/a>, Hasan entered a readiness processing center at the Texas post and opened fire, killing 13 \u2014 including a pregnant soldier \u2014 and wounding 32. Hasan admitted to the shootings at his court-martial in 2013 and was sentenced to death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Hasan is put to death, it would be the first military execution since 1961, when ex-soldier John Bennett was hanged after being convicted for raping and attempting to kill a young girl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hearing Tuesday marks the next stage of the case in the drawn-out military appeals process. Regardless of the hearing\u2019s outcome, it remains unclear if and when a decision on execution could be made.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2023\/03\/16\/family-says-fort-hood-soldier-found-dead-faced-sexual-harassment\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-16-at-11.02.48-AM.png.png?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Family says Fort Hood soldier found dead faced sexual harassment<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Pvt. Ana Basaldua Ruiz was found dead in a maintenance bay, according to Spanish-language media reports.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI would say a lot could happen,\u201d Richard Dieter, the executive director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/deathpenaltyinfo.org\/state-and-federal-info\/military\" target=\"_blank\">Death Penalty Information Center<\/a>, told Military Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once a decision is reached, the case will likely be appealed to the Supreme Court, Dieter explained. The president must also weigh in with final say on the ex-soldier\u2019s fate. As commander in chief, the president is required to confirm an execution sentence or commute it to what would likely be life in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exactly what President Joe Biden, who pledged to abolish federal capital punishment, would do remains unclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland-imposes-moratorium-federal-executions-orders-review\" target=\"_blank\">imposed a moratorium<\/a> in the summer of 2021 to pause federal execution orders, although it still is pressing for the death penalty in certain cases, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/federal-executions-president-joe-biden-attorney-general-merrick-garland-death-row-987c9f078d527220d75e728fa68d26a1\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>. This followed the Trump administration\u2019s resumption of federal, non-military executions in 2020 after a 17-year hiatus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1983, <a href=\"https:\/\/deathpenaltyinfo.org\/state-and-federal-info\/military\/facts-and-figures\" target=\"_blank\">the military appeals court ruled<\/a> that the death penalty was unconstitutional, but that was soon reversed by President Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hasan is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2019\/07\/30\/what-death-row-executions-may-mean-for-these-four-soldiers-at-leavenworth\/\" target=\"_blank\">one of four former service members<\/a> currently on military death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. In 2008, President George W. Bush signed off on the execution of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2018\/07\/06\/convicted-murderer-rapist-ronald-gray-loses-bid-to-bring-case-to-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\">ex-soldier Ronald Gray<\/a> \u2014 on military death row since 1988 \u2014 but an execution of the serial rapist and murderer is unlikely to occur anytime soon due to the case becoming a legal roller coaster. Others who previously sat on military death row <a href=\"https:\/\/deathpenaltyinfo.org\/news\/president-obama-commutes-two-death-sentences\" target=\"_blank\">had their death sentences reduced<\/a> by President Barack Obama during his final days in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both sides at Hasan\u2019s hearing will argue, among other legal issues, whether it was correct to let the former Army psychiatrist represent himself in the preceding trial, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armfor.uscourts.gov\/briefs\/2022Term\/Hasan210193AppelleeRedactedBrief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">partly redacted court documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department of Defense, Congress and the FBI all conducted a series of investigations following the mass shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn many ways, the Fort Hood attack was a harbinger for the slow but steady increase in lone-actor terrorist attacks in the United States,\u201d according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/stories.usatodaynetwork.com\/the-fort-hood-shooting-10-years-later\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/239\/2019\/10\/Nidal-Hasan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2018 report<\/a> by George Washington University\u2019s Program on Extremism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt forced the intelligence and law enforcement communities to re-evaluate counterterrorism processes and long-held assumptions about radicalization within the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/veterans\/2022\/12\/14\/mississippi-set-to-execute-marine-veteran-for-killing-16-year-old-girl\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22277779266513.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Mississippi set to execute Marine veteran for killing 16-year-old girl<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Loden told investigators he became angry after the teen allegedly said she would never want to be a Marine, and that he ordered her into his van.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soldiers today can still recall that day in 2009 when their lives were forever changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Army Staff Sgt. 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