A proposed livestream of an execution by firing squad has reignited debate over capital punishment and the US military's image.

Supply-chain issues and a series of botched executions involving lethal injection are causing officials to weigh alternative options for carrying out the death penalty.

Pope Leo XIV has spoken out against the death penalty after the Pentagon announced plans to livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. "The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person,

The Pentagon's plans to live-stream a military execution would put it on a very short list of nations to execute someone publicly.

The U.S. military plans to livestream the Dec. 3 execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting.

A botched execution and a planned execution that might be livestreamed have renewed debate and divisions over the most severe form of punishment.

The execution of Nidal Hasan, convicted in the 2009 killings of 13 people at Fort Hood, will be livestreamed, the Defense Department said.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Fort Hood shooter's execution would be livestreamed, which would make it the first public execution in the U.S. in decades.

Christa Pike was the 10th person to survive their "date with death" in the United States in the last 100 years. In May 2026, Tony Carruthers became the ninth. But who were the first eight?

Anthony Albanese is considering all options to prevent Australians from being exposed to the "completely abhorrent" proposed

Decision to livestream Nidal Hasan execution has led to harsh criticism and warnings that it could encourage violence.