Hegseth proposes making Hasan’s planned execution public

Hegseth says people should be able to watch the planned execution of Nidal Malik Hasan.

Hasan, a former army psychiatrist, killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009.

The article compares public executions in the United States with Iran’s use of them.

It argues that making an execution a public spectacle risks copying a practice associated with repression.