{"id":50606,"date":"2026-10-09T15:38:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/un-says-pentagon-plan-to-livestream-execution-of-fort-hood-shooter-would-amount-to-torture-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T15:38:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:38:56","slug":"un-says-pentagon-plan-to-livestream-execution-of-fort-hood-shooter-would-amount-to-torture-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/un-says-pentagon-plan-to-livestream-execution-of-fort-hood-shooter-would-amount-to-torture-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"UN says Pentagon plan to livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter would amount to torture \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Condemnation comes amid fierce backlash from US lawmakers who branded the move \u2018grotesque\u2019 and compared it to actions of some terror groups and oppressive governments<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Analysis: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/oct\/09\/pete-hegseth-public-execution-nidal-hasan-capital-sentences\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plan to livestream execution puts US in dubious company<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for the US Breaking News email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a statement to the Guardian, <strong>Robin M<\/strong><strong> Maher<\/strong>, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said that her group is <strong>\u201cnot aware of any regulation or precedent for a military execution to be live<\/strong><strong>streamed<\/strong> on the internet or otherwise made widely available to the public\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She added that <strong>\u201cpublic executions are typically held in authoritarian countries to instil fear in the population, and to show the power and control of the government.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/oct\/09\/pentagon-fort-hood-livestream-firing-squad-execution-reaction-backlash-pete-hegseth-donald-trump-mussolini-latest-news-updates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Condemnation comes amid fierce backlash from US lawmakers who branded the move \u2018grotesque\u2019 and compared it to actions of some terror groups and oppressive governments Analysis: Plan to livestream execution puts US in dubious company Sign up for the US Breaking News email In a statement to the Guardian, Robin M Maher, the executive director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 20:47:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}