Laura Loomer says she wants to live-stream the execution of Nidal Hasan. In an X (formerly Twitter) post on October 8, 2026, she wrote,"I have reached out to the Pentagon to ask them whether or not the execution of Nidal Hasan will be open to the Pentagon Press Corps to attend and report on."She asked whether the Pentagon Press Corps could attend and report on it. She added that she would "love to live stream it and narrate it step by step" for her followers.Reuters reported on the same day that the Pentagon had already announced a livestream of its own. At the time of press, there is no response from the Pentagon.Laura Loomer @LauraLoomerLINKI have reached out to the Pentagon to ask them whether or not the execution of Nidal Hasan will be open to the Pentagon Press Corps to attend and report on. I’d love to live stream it and narrate it step by step for my followers.Nidal Hasan execution: What the Pentagon has announcedA Pentagon official, speaking anonymously, told Reuters the execution "will be livestreamed" and that details would follow. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed the plan in a post on X (formerly Twitter).Reuters called it an unprecedented broadcast of a US execution. Media outlets have tried to televise executions before, but courts blocked them. Experts told the agency that no other country is known to livestream a legal execution.The execution is reportedly scheduled for December 3, 2026, at Fort Hood, Texas, the same base where the 2009 shooting happened. Pete Hegseth called the choice a "no-brainer" on the Human Events Daily program, saying,"We'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public."Asked whether Nidal Hasan had made any final requests, he replied,"Don't care."Military law requires a president to approve a firing squad. President Donald Trump did so on Hegseth's recommendation, the Pentagon said. Reuters reported that Hegseth had championed the push. The White House declined to say whether Trump supports the livestream and referred questions to the Pentagon.More about the Fort Hood shooting and legal questionsNidal Hasan, 56, is a former Army psychiatrist. A military jury sentenced him to death in August 2013 after convicting him on 45 counts of premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder, Reuters reported.The shooting at a medical facility on the base killed 13 people. It came weeks before his scheduled deployment to Afghanistan. Police shot him during his arrest, leaving him partially paralyzed and in a wheelchair.Reuters said the execution would be the first by a U.S. military firing squad since 1945. Death Penalty Action said it would be the first military execution of any kind since 1961. Experts told Reuters the last legally sanctioned public execution in the country took place in 1936.At least five states have firing squads, per the Death Penalty Information Center, and South Carolina carried out the first such US execution in 15 years in 2025.Eugene Fidell, a military law expert who lectures at Yale Law School, said a livestream would be "extremely, extremely strange." Hasan would need to sue in federal court to block it, he said. Military justice historian Jonathan Lurie said there are no compelling reasons to make the execution public.