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Column by Philip Kennicott: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s promise to live-stream the execution by firing squad of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will implicate the U.S. military in a spectacle degrading to its reputation worldwide.

washingtonpost.comColumn | This 1814 painting captures the moral gravity of public executionsAs most countries know, dramatizing the absolute power of the state almost always humanizes the condemned.

10/10/26, 1:45 am26 reposts89 likes

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@jem6.bsky.social

He is such a disgrace to the country. Firing squad live streamed and the guys in a wheelchair?

bookreader63.bsky.social

@bookreader63.bsky.social

This idea is beyond sick. The death penalty has no place in a civilised society. The way the USA has discussed Christa Pike and now this shows that your country has gone back 2000 years to gladitorial Rome. It's abhorrent and the fact that you are not condemming it speaks volumes about you and USA

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@justdrewit.bsky.social

Weird. Last time we were reliving 1912. But as we all know Biden…