The Army has set December 3, 2026, as the execution date for Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009. Just The News reports Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle announced Tuesday that Hasan will be executed by firing squad at Fort Hood at 1 p.m. Central. RaveNews Online, citing the execution order, says Telle signed it on October 6.

The accounts differ on when President Trump acted. Just The News reports he approved the execution and the method on Monday. RaveNews Online, citing the order, reports the President approved the death sentence on October 2. CBS Texas reports Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said late Monday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recommended an Army firing squad and President Trump approved it.

Hasan was a major when he opened fire on November 5, 2009. CBS Texas reports he fired 146 times at unarmed soldiers at a readiness center who were preparing to deploy, killing 13 and wounding 32. A military jury convicted him in 2013 of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder, RaveNews Online reports. He has been held on death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, since then, according to Just The News.

CBS Texas reports that under Army regulation 190-55, only the president can approve a military execution. A 2019 revision removed lethal injection from the regulation and left the method to the Army secretary, with the provost marshal general making a recommendation. This will be the first military execution since 1961, when the Army hanged Pvt. John Bennett at Fort Leavenworth. CBS Texas reports the last firing squad execution was of Pvt. Eddie Slovik, put to death in France during World War II for desertion.

CBS Texas says victims' families learned the date in an email. The station reached out to Fort Hood for comment and was directed to Army headquarters. The execution is scheduled, not carried out.