Urgent Opposition to Livestreaming Nidal Hasan’s Execution – Write to Your Members of Congress NOW!

This a local Indivisible event! Dear Representative [Last Name], I am writing as your constituent to express my profound objection to the Pentagon’s announced plan to livestream the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, scheduled for December 3, 2026. This would be the first military execution in more than 60 years and the first public execution in the United States in nearly a century. I strongly urge you to publicly oppose this decision and to exercise congressional oversight to prevent the Department of Defense from turning a solemn act of military justice into a public spectacle. I want to be clear: my objection is not rooted in sympathy for Hasan or in any doubt about the gravity of his crimes. He murdered 13 unarmed soldiers and wounded more than 30 others at Fort Hood in 2009, and he has never claimed innocence. The families of the victims and the survivors deserve justice and closure. But justice and spectacle are not the same thing, and the decision to livestream this execution is a profound mistake that will harm our nation’s moral standing, endanger our security, and undermine the very principles we claim to uphold. The livestream would violate fundamental human rights standards. The United Nations human rights office has warned that livestreaming an execution would amount to a public execution and would breach the absolute prohibition on torture under international law. A UN spokesperson described the prospect of a government executing someone “in front of live cameras” as “abhorrent”. Amnesty International has condemned the plan as “reprehensible,” noting that international human rights bodies have long found public executions incompatible with the prohibition on cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. The United States should not join the ranks of nations that carry out public executions; according to Amnesty International, only Iran and Afghanistan are known to have done so in 2025. This is not who we are—or who we should aspire to be. The livestr