Firing Squad

The Pentagon will execute Nidal Hasan by firing squad. Monday's announcement names the former Army psychiatrist convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, which killed 13 people and wounded 32 others. Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recommended the execution and President Donald Trump approved it, according to ABC News. It will be the first U.S. military execution in more than 60 years.

On Nov. 5, 2009, Hasan opened fire at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center on the Fort Hood base in Texas, ABC News reported. He killed 12 soldiers and one civilian. Soldiers and police then shot him and placed him under arrest. Witnesses told Fox News he shouted "Allahu Akbar" during the attack.

A military jury convicted Hasan in 2013 on 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder. He was sentenced to death and sent to the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he is one of four inmates on the Army's death row, ABC News reported.

Appeals followed, automatic in death sentences. The Supreme Court declined to review his conviction earlier this year, Fox News reported.

Army policy requires an execution between 60 and 150 days after a president's approval, ABC News reported. No time or place yet. Army rules call for at least two media outlets to witness it, according to ABC News.

1961 marked the last U.S. military execution. Pvt. John Bennett was hanged after his conviction for the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old girl in Austria, both outlets reported. A 2008 attempt by President George W. Bush to execute a service member was stopped by a federal court, according to Fox News.

ABC News reported in June that the Army had already drafted plans for military executions under an internal directive called "Operation Resolute Justice." The February plan directed officials to coordinate with the Federal Bureau of Prisons on moving condemned prisoners from Fort Leavenworth to the federal execution facility in Terre Haute, Indiana.

"Judgment day for Hasan has finally come," Parnell wrote, according to Fox News.