Trump approves firing squad for convicted US military base shooter

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President Donald Trump approved the use of a firing squad for Nidal Hasan, the former US Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people and wounding more than two dozen at Fort Hood in 2009. The case concerns a military-base mass shooting and the execution method for the convicted attacker.

Nidal Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist, shot dead 13 people and wounded more than two dozen people at the Fort Hood military base in Texas in 2009.