Republican opposition grows against Pentagon's public execution plan

WBUR

Published October 13, 2026 at 10:05 AM MDT

Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Axios White House reporter Marc Caputo about why Republicans are urging the Trump administration to reverse course on plans to livestream the planned execution of Nidal Hasan, a former U.S. Army major who was sentenced to death for killing 13 people at the Fort Hood, Texas, Army base in 2009.

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