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Dujarric calls US plan for a public execution disgusting
UN Secretary-General’s Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric criticized plans to execute Fort Hood shooting convict Nidal Hasan by firing squad in public in the United States. Dujarric said livestreaming the execution could violate the ban on torture.
The plan to execute Nidal Hasan by firing squad in the United States has drawn a response from the UN. Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009.
At his daily press briefing, UN Secretary-General’s Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric described governments executing people in public in front of cameras and via livestreams as “disgusting.”
Dujarric said public executions, also seen in countries such as Iran and Afghanistan, constituted cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Referring to statements by the UN Human Rights Office, Dujarric said livestreaming the execution could violate the ban on torture.
Hasan’s execution plan
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had announced that the public could watch Hasan’s execution by firing squad. Hegseth said people needed to understand that such actions had serious consequences.
Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, is expected to be executed on December 3. A military jury sentenced Hasan to death over the attack carried out at Fort Hood in November 2009, in which 13 people were killed and 32 were injured.
The last public execution in the United States was reportedly carried out in Kentucky in 1936. Rainey Bethea, a Black man convicted of raping a white woman, was hanged in that execution.
The Pentagon’s plan to livestream the execution has also drawn criticism from Republican and Democratic politicians in the United States. Democratic Senator Patty Murray called on the Pentagon to abandon the plan, while Joe Kent, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, warned that the broadcast could give extremist groups an opportunity for propaganda.
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