Hegseth vows public firing squad execution

Thursday, October 08, 2026

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed in an interview this week that the execution of the man who killed 13 people in a mass shooting at Fort Hood in 2009 would be "public." "We'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public, because people need to understand that there's serious consequences for these types of things," Hegseth told far-right podcaster Jack Posobiec in an interview aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on Wednesday.

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A Pentagon official said Thursday that the execution "will be livestreamed," but did not offer more details. Earlier on Thursday, the Pentagon had referred questions about how the execution would be publicized to the Army

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You first, Petey.

Also, this ain't happening and the U.S. military is a world-wide joke.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-10-08 09:44 PM | Reply

Christ these people are sick

Given this administration's track record this televised murder will be a fiasco

#2 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-10-08 10:07 PM | Reply

Nazis gonna Nazi.... right, Jeffy?

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2026-10-08 10:07 PM | Reply

Pete Hegseth has been committing war crimes and perhaps he should suffer a similar fate

#4 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-10-08 10:08 PM | Reply

Can gassing people with foreign names be far behind public executions of such?

It's only breaking almost 100 years of American Tradition.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2026-10-08 10:15 PM | Reply

I remind people that Piggy pardoned some US soldiers convicted of war crimes including murdering civilians

#6 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-10-08 10:18 PM | Reply

Bread ($5000) and Circuses (live-streamed executions).

#7 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2026-10-08 10:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Not going to happen. He's inherited Trump's big mouth.

#8 | Posted by willowby at 2026-10-08 10:40 PM | Reply

Yeah, Willowby, they don't really mean it.

Sure.

#9 | Posted by Corky at 2026-10-08 11:01 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Welcome to North Korea. This is what they do. Just sayin

#10 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2026-10-08 11:10 PM | Reply

This is what they do. Just sayin

Same for Iran and Afghanistan.

#11 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-10-08 11:19 PM | Reply

Same for Iran and Afghanistan.

Posted by REDIAL at 2026-10-08 11:19 PM | Reply

Yeppers

#12 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2026-10-08 11:21 PM | Reply

Not going to happen. He's inherited Trump's big mouth.
#8 | Posted by willowby

The Department of War order for execution by firing squad was on Facebook.
Are you saying that was fake?

I do have to wonder if they're gonna Bonnie and Clyde him. Tsarnev him. Rodney King him, except with bullets.
I know they want to.

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-10-08 11:54 PM | Reply

Welcome to North Korea. This is what they do. Just sayin
#10 | POSTED BY LAURAMOHR

True, which isn't as bad as Canada where they recommended they off you for just being depressed teen.

In 2023, a federal parliamentary committee recommended changing Canada's laws to allow certain minors under 18 to access MAID if deemed capable of making that decision.

The committee also recommended that a minor's decision could take priority over their parents' wishes.
www.parl.ca

#14 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-10-09 12:51 AM | Reply

Captain Relevant strikes again!

#15 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-10-09 01:10 AM | Reply

"The committee also recommended that a minor's decision could take priority over their parents' wishes."

Terrible news for parents who think they own their children.

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-10-09 01:16 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Canada is worse than North Korea!

This is peak stupidity, oneironut. I dare you to do better.

#17 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-10-09 01:44 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

This is peak stupidity, oneironut.

He doesn't seem to understand the difference between a committee report and a law.

What it has to do with public executions is also a bit of a mystery.

#18 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-10-09 01:48 AM | Reply

This is what we've sunk to here in "The Land of the Free." Public executions for sport.

The America we grew up in is gone and will never return. We live in its festering corpse now.

#19 | Posted by qcp at 2026-10-09 08:45 AM | Reply

"You should get life in front of a firing squad!!"

-Frank Burns, Sec. of Defense

#20 | Posted by eberly at 2026-10-09 08:57 AM | Reply

#14 | Posted by oneironaut

Off-topic as usual, you retarded pile of ----.

#21 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-10-09 10:31 AM | Reply

I am not for executions public or private.

But ... If we are going to execute our people shouldn't they all be public?

So that the public can decide if that is what they really want happening?

If the botched execution of the woman in Tennessee had been televised I bet there would not be any more executions in America. For at least for a while until they forget how horrible it was.. again.

#22 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-10-09 11:41 AM | Reply