A survivor of the 2009 Fort Hood massacre says she wishes the mass shooter could be killed one time for every life he took that day – but even she is questioning the military's decision to livestream his death. Nidal Hasan, 56, is scheduled to face execution by firing squad on Dec. 3, 2026, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced earlier this month that it will be made available to stream to the public. "Why would people want to see that?" Julia Wilson, a former Defense Department civilian employee who survived the shooting 17 years ago, told Fox News Digital.
Wilson wants the mass shooter executed, and, as a victim, she wants to attend his execution and look him in the eye. Hasan, an Army psychiatrist at the time, walked into a soldier readiness center on Nov, 5, 2009, on the Texas Army post and opened fire, killing 13 people and wounding 32 others. Following a military court-martial verdict, Hasan was sentenced to death on Aug. 28, 2013.
FORT HOOD SURVIVOR SHOT IN HEAD VOWS TO WATCH TERRORIST FACE HISTORIC FIRING SQUAD On Oct. 2, President Donald Trump approved the death sentence, and days later Hegseth announced it would be by a public firing squad. "Personally, I do want to be there," Wilson told Fox News Digital. "I do want to look him in the eye to let him know, ‘Look, I may have been your victim that day, but I'm not your victim anymore.
My child survived you, a lot of us survived you. You didn't do as much damage as you thought you were going to.'" "You did what you did," Wilson continued of Hasan's attack. "Too bad we can't kill you 13 times over." But Wilson has reservations about the decision to broadcast Hasan's execution to the public.
"I'm kind of shocked that they're going to go so far as to televise it," Wilson said. "I don't really know how to feel about that." She fears broadcasting his death could pose a risk of exposing children to the kind of violence she has spent nearly 17 years trying to forget. "Unfortunately, some children may end up seeing that, that don't need to see something like that," Wilson said.
"Seeing my soldiers murdered that day, that was the first time I've ever seen anything like that. And I can never wash it out of my mind." "I don't know why anybody would want to actually see something like that happen." Wilson's concerns echo objections raised by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. "Hasan should face the death penalty, but making his execution public and streaming it?
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