2026-10-10T10:30:44.646Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
三位知情人士告诉CNN，国防部长皮特·赫格斯特宣布将公开处决被定罪的胡德堡大规模枪击案凶手，这一消息让五角大楼和美军上下猝不及防。
赫格斯特周三在“亚伯拉罕·林肯”号航空母舰上接受极右翼播客主持人杰克·波索比奇采访时宣布了这一决定，他当时登舰是为向完成中东部署返港的舰员发表欢迎演讲。
“我们将确保民众能够观看处决，全程公开，因为人们需要明白，这类行为会带来严重后果，”赫格斯特在采访中说道。
这是美军和五角大楼许多人首次听闻公开处决尼达尔·哈桑的计划，后者因得克萨斯州的案件被判处死刑，随即引发了对“公开”具体含义的诸多疑问。美军现行法规对军事处决的观礼人员有明确规定，包括囚犯家属、受害者家属、媒体代表和牧师。
但一位知情人士透露，赫格斯特、代理陆军部长亚当·特尔、五角大楼发言人肖恩·帕内尔及其团队最终敲定，“公开”即意味着行刑过程将进行直播。五角大楼随后向媒体证实了这一点，在一份声明中表示：“部长的说法是正确的。处决将进行直播，细节后续公布。”
美军将相关问题转交五角大楼回应，五角大楼发言人表示，除周四确认将直播外，没有更多补充信息。
这一想法震惊了众多现役军人和退伍军人，并引发了两党强烈反对。副总统JD·万斯周五对直播能否最终推进表示怀疑，称他不确定“这是否真的会发生”，但补充道，如果真的直播，“我不会观看”。
“公开处决完全背离了美国的立国价值观，”一位曾多次赴中东部署的美军军官对CNN表示，“允许身着军装的士兵站在一名坐轮椅的男子面前，亲眼看着他被枪杀，这种做法造成的代际伤害是无法弥补的。”
总统唐纳德·特朗普周五对行刑队处决的计划表示欢迎。
“我们要处死一名几年前杀害14名士兵的男子，用行刑队执行死刑——他罪有应得，”总统在白宫纪念克里斯托弗·哥伦布的活动上说道，现场响起掌声。
特朗普周五对CNN旗下电视台WSTM表示，他并未参与直播处决的决策，补充道：“但我理解这项决定。”
周五早些时候，在白宫被记者问及直播事宜时，特朗普表示其团队将就此作出决定，同时重申哈桑将被处以死刑，“行刑队方式”。当被问及是否会观看直播时，他并未作答。
联邦通信委员会主席布伦丹·卡尔在接受CNBC《街头呐喊》节目采访时称，据他了解，处决画面不会在广播电视播出，但他将尊重赫格斯特以及“他推进相关事宜的决策”。
关于直播的诸多细节尚未敲定，多位消息人士告诉CNN，自该计划宣布以来，官员们一直在设法解答各类问题。第二位知情人士告诉CNN，军方正在谨慎考量哪些士兵将参与对哈桑的行刑，同时需考虑执行任务可能带来的心理影响。该人士透露，已选定一支专门部队负责此次处决。
该人士还表示，直播处决还面临更多挑战，包括如何隐藏参与行刑的士兵身份。目前也不清楚除五角大楼官网外，处决是否会在其他平台直播，以及将在何处直播。广播公司和社交媒体平台对暴力和令人不安的内容有严格限制。
第一位知情人士表示，目前仍存在一个疑问：既然军方将此次行动作为合法命令推进，士兵是否可以拒绝参与。
第二位知情人士也持相同看法，称尽管许多士兵“在战斗中可能夺取过生命”，但此次情况截然不同。
“这起事件中，这名男子多年前犯下了严重罪行，伤害了许多人，”第二位人士说道，“他届时将无法动弹，如同活靶子一般。”
Army caught off guard by Hegseth’s order to make firing squad execution public
2026-10-10T10:30:44.646Z / CNN
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s announcement that the execution of the convicted Fort Hood mass shooter would be shown in public caught people across the Pentagon and the Army off guard, three sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
Hegseth made the announcement in an interview with far-right podcaster Jack Posobiec aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on Wednesday, which he’d visited to give a speech to the crew welcoming them home from their deployment to the Middle East.
“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 said during the interview.
That comment was the first time many in the Army and Pentagon heard about the idea of a firing squad’s execution of Nidal Hasan in Texas being made public, and there were immediately questions about what “public” would mean. There are Army regulations about who can watch a military execution, including family of the prisoner and of the victims, media representatives and a chaplain.
But it was decided by Hegseth, acting Army Secretary Adam Telle, and Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell and his staff that “public” would mean it would be livestreamed, one source familiar said. The Pentagon then confirmed as much to the media, saying in a statement, “The Secretary is correct. It will be livestreamed. Details will follow.”
The Army referred questions to the Pentagon, and a Pentagon spokesperson said they had nothing to add beyond Thursday’s confirmation that it would be live-streamed.
The idea has shocked many service members and veterans and provoked a bipartisan backlash. Vice President JD Vance cast doubt on Friday that the livestream could ultimately go forward, saying he didn’t know “if that’s actually going to happen,” but said if it was, “I’m not going to be watching it.”
“It takes away everything America stands for when we do public executions,” one Army officer with multiple deployments to the Middle East told CNN. “The generational harm caused by allowing troops in uniform to stand in front of a man in a wheelchair and watch him get shot to death is irreparable.”
President Donald Trump welcomed the idea of a firing squad execution on Friday.
“We’re giving a man the death penalty who killed 14 soldiers a couple of years ago. Death penalty through firing squad — and he deserves it,” the president said to applause during a White House event honoring Christopher Columbus.
Trump told CNN-affiliate WSTM on Friday he was not involved in the decision to livestream the execution, adding, “but I understand the decision.”
Asked about the livestream by reporters at the White House earlier Friday, the president said his administration would make a determination about it, while reiterating that Hasan will be killed and “through firing squad.” He didn’t answer when a reporter asked if he’d watch the livestream.
FCC chair Brendan Carr told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” it was his understanding that the execution would not be shown on broadcast TV – but that he would defer to Hegseth and “his decisions on how to move forward.”
Many of the details around the livestream have yet to be finalized, and multiple sources told CNN that officials have been working to find answers since it was announced. A second source familiar told CNN that great care is being taken to determine which soldiers would fire on Hasan, taking into consideration the potential psychological impacts of doing so. A specific unit has been selected to carry out the execution, the source said.
Showing the execution on a livestream presents more challenges, the source said, including any effort to obscure from the public the identities of the soldiers involved. It’s also unclear where and if the execution will be streamed beyond the Pentagon’s own website. Broadcasters and social media platforms have strict restrictions on violent and disturbing content.
The first source familiar said there are still questions about whether soldiers can decline to participate, given that the military is moving forward with this as a legal order.
The second source familiar echoed the same, saying while many soldiers may have “taken a life in combat,” this is a very different situation.
“This is a situation where the guy has done a very bad thing and hurt a lot of people, years removed,” the second source said. “He’s going to be immobile and put up like a target.”
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