2026-10-09 10:41 美国东部时间 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
华盛顿—— 五角大楼计划对尼达尔·哈桑的枪决死刑进行直播的消息曝光后，引发了强烈反对。哈桑是前陆军少校，2009年在胡德堡枪杀13人并被定罪。一名共和党参议员称此举“令人作呕”，批评者警告此举可能煽动更多恐怖主义行为。
周四，美国国防部长皮特·赫格斯瑟证实了哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的报道，称12月3日的死刑执行将进行直播。赫格斯瑟在接受《美国之声》采访时表示，死刑执行将公开进行，“因为人们需要明白，这类行为会付出严重代价”。五角大楼首席发言人肖恩·帕内尔表示，赫格斯瑟提出了使用陆军行刑队的计划，且已获得特朗普总统批准。
即将退休的共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯称这一决定“极其令人作呕”。蒂利斯曾投票支持确认赫格斯瑟的职务，但现在对此表示后悔。
“哈桑理应被判处死刑，但将其死刑执行公开并进行直播？这极其令人作呕，”蒂利斯在X平台上写道，“公开处决是伊朗和阿富汗这类压迫性独裁政权的做法。美国不应如此。”
佐治亚州共和党众议员奥斯汀·斯科特在X平台上写道：“我完全支持死刑判决，但直播死刑处决是圣战分子的做法。美国比这更优秀。”
民主党参议员克里斯·墨菲表示，公开处决某人是“中世纪的做法”。
“这令人作呕。他是在模仿伊斯兰国的处决方式吗？”墨菲在CNN采访中说道，“我的意思是，我理解我国保留死刑，但公开处决是中世纪的做法。这实际上是我们憎恶恐怖组织的原因之一。而美国竟然在这么做——我也是刚得知此事，这简直令人无比震惊、愤慨。无论你支持还是反对死刑，公开绞刑和处决？美国已经变成这样了？”
曾在拜登政府期间担任国务院发言人的内德·普莱斯表示，公开并直播死刑处决会催生更多“激进狂热分子”。
“那些多年从事反恐工作的人可以告诉你们：催生更多激进狂热分子最稳妥的方式，就是美化暴力、拥抱死亡崇拜，并为极端主义事业制造一名殉道者，”普莱斯在X平台上写道，“或者参考基地组织和伊斯兰国，它们的战术与赫格斯瑟的提议最为接近。无论哪种情况，这都很难不被看作是他一贯的表演式虚张声势，这种做法通常会损害美国的形象，而在此次事件中，它还如此残忍地让我们变得更加脆弱。”
阿朗佐·伦瑟福德是一名前美国陆军中士，在胡德堡枪击案中身中7枪后幸存。他支持对这名枪手使用行刑队执行死刑。但伦瑟福德表示，此次死刑执行“不应成为供人娱乐的观赏项目”。
“向普通公众不加审查地直播整个过程，就我个人而言，我不认同这一点，但这无关我的个人信念，”他在接受BBC广播采访时说道。
美国天主教主教会议主席保罗·S·科克利大主教周五上午发表声明，敦促五角大楼重新考虑这一计划。
“无论如何都不能宽恕哈桑的行为，但这一决定是对死亡文化的野蛮宣扬，必须重新考虑。上帝的话语告诫我们：‘不要以恶报恶’，”这位大主教援引《罗马书》12:17说道，“即便对犯下严重罪行的人进行公开处决，也只会进一步破坏国家的道德根基，成为国民良知的污点。”
支持死刑的保守派脱口秀主持人埃里克·埃里克森也表示，公开直播哈桑的死刑处决会给他“梦寐以求的殉道平台”。
“哈桑是截瘫患者，只能坐在轮椅上，”埃里克森写道，“行刑队处决一名因无法站立而坐在椅子上的男子的公开画面，会削弱公众对死刑的支持。一个越来越倾向于同情反派的社会，会在这件事上如此。这也给了尼达尔·哈桑他想要的殉道平台。中东地区会有人传播这段直播视频，煽动更多恐怖分子枪击美国人，以此庆祝尼达尔·哈桑殉道的荣耀。”
曾在美国陆军军法署服役的德克萨斯理工大学法学教授杰弗里·康告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，直播死刑执行的计划“引发了重大的道德问题，远超一般死刑相关的争议”。
“死刑执行通常遵循一定的程序，限制观礼人员的范围，通常仅限受害者亲属和部分媒体成员，”他说道。
康表示，“将死刑处罚变成某种公共 spectacle（公开 spectacle），呼应了我们似乎早已摒弃的过去陋习。”
尽管伦瑟福德对直播持担忧态度，但这位前美国陆军中士表示，他会到场观看死刑执行。
“我会亲自到场观看，在他们扣动扳机之前，我想让他看着我的眼睛，我也看着他的眼睛，我想让他知道：‘伙计，你失败了，我还活着’，”他告诉BBC。
美国上一次公开处决似乎是在90年前的1936年。当时雷尼·贝西亚在肯塔基州因强奸罪被绞死。据报道，此次处决吸引了约2万名观众到场。
赫格斯瑟宣布这一计划之际，民主党人和共和党众议员托马斯·马西正推动弹劾他。众议院议长迈克·约翰逊决定在中期选举前一天提前取消投票，导致弹劾投票被推迟。
埃莉诺·沃森和乔·沃尔什为本报道贡献了内容。
Pentagon’s plan to livestream Fort Hood shooter’s execution sparks intense backlash
2026-10-09 10:41 EDT / CBS News
Washington— The revelation that the Pentagon plans to livestream the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, the ex-Army major convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, has sparked intense pushback, with one Republican senator calling it “disgusting” and critics warning it could inspire more acts of terrorism.
On Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed CBS News’ reporting that the Dec. 3 execution will be livestreamed. Hegseth told Real America’s Voice the execution would be public “because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things.” Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said that Hegseth recommended, and President Trump approved, a plan to use an Army firing squad.
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, who is retiring, called the decision “beyond disgusting.” Tillis voted to confirm Hegseth, but is now expressing his regret in doing so.
“Hasan should face the death penalty, but making his execution public and streaming it? Beyond disgusting,” Tillis wrote on X. “Public executions are what oppressive dictatorships like Iran and Afghanistan do. It should not be happening in America.”
Republican Rep. Austin Scott of Georgia wrote on X, “I absolutely support the sentence of death, but live-streaming executions is what jihadists do. America is better than that.”
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy said publicly executing someone is “medieval.”
“That’s disgusting. What, is he mimicking ISIS executions?” Murphy said on CNN. “I mean, I understand that in this country we have the death penalty, but public executions is medieval. It’s frankly one of the things that we abhor about terrorist groups. And the fact that the United States is doing it — I just learned this, that is just absolutely extraordinary, galling. No matter whether you support or oppose the death penalty, public hangings and executions? That’s what America has become?”
Ned Price, who was the State Department’s spokesman during the Biden administration, said a public and livestreamed execution will create more “radicalized zealots.”
“You can take it from those of us who’ve spent years working on terrorism: the surest way to spawn more radicalized zealots is to glorify violence, embrace a cult of death, and create a martyr for the cause,” Price wrote on X. “Or take it from AQ and ISIS, whose tactics offer the closest modern-day approximation of Hegseth’s proposal. Either way, it’s hard to conjure a more vivid example of his trademark performative bravado, which routinely damages America’s image and, in this case, so ghoulishly leaves us more vulnerable.”
Alonzo Lunsford, a former U.S. Army sergeant who was shot seven times during the Fort Hood shooting but survived, said he supports the gunman’s execution by firing squad. But Lunsford said this execution is “not something you should view for entertainment purposes.”
“To show the whole thing without it being censored for the general public, for me personally, I don’t agree with that, but it’s not about my personal belief,” he told BBC Radio.
Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, issued a statement Friday morning urging the Pentagon to reconsider.
“In no way can Hasan’s actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: ‘do not repay anyone evil for evil,’” the archbishop said, citing Romans 12:17. “The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.”
Conservative talk show host Erick Erickson, who supports the death penalty, also said a public, livestreamed execution of Hasan will give him the “platform for martyrdom he wants.”
“Hasan is a paraplegic, confined to a wheelchair,” Erickson wrote. “The public imagery of a firing squad killing a man sitting in a chair because he cannot stand is going to undermine support for the death penalty. A society that increasingly finds ways to sympathize with the villains will do so here. This also gives Nidal Hasan the platform for martyrdom he wants. They’ll be passing out the livestream video in the Middle East to inspire more terrorists to shoot up Americans to celebrate the glory of the martyrdom of Nidal Hasan.”
Geoffrey Corn, a Texas Tech University law professor who served in the Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps, told CBS News that the plan to livestream the execution “raises significant moral questions, above and beyond the questions related to the death penalty generally.”
“There’s a certain protocol that is normally followed with executions limiting the gallery of observers, which usually includes people close to the victims and certain members of the media,” he said.
Corn said “turning the execution of such a penalty into some type of public spectacle echoes of the past we seem to have put behind us.”
Despite Lunsford’s concerns about the livestream, the former U.S. Army sergeant said he’ll be there for the execution.
“I’m going to be there to watch in person and before they pull the trigger, I want him to look at me in my eyes and I look at him in his eyes and I want him to know: ‘Dude, you failed, I’m still here,’” he told the BBC.
The last public execution in the U.S. appeared to take place90 years ago in 1936. That’s when Rainey Bethea was hanged for rape in Kentucky. The execution reportedly drew a crowd of about 20,000.
Hegseth’s announcement comes amid efforts from Democrats and Republican Rep. Thomas Massie to impeach him. A vote on his impeachment was delayed by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to cancel votes a day early ahead of the midterms.
Eleanor Watson and Joe Walsh contributed to this report.
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