{"id":458297,"date":"2026-10-06T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458297\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T20:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:00:08","slug":"expert-weighs-in-on-firing-squad-executions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458297\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert weighs in on firing squad executions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-2ea10eb1=\"\">President Trump approved the use of a firing squad for the execution of a former Army psychiatrist behind a deadly shooting at Fort Hood. Nidal Hasan killed 12 soldiers and 1 civilian in the 2009 shooting. An additional 32 people were injured. The military has not executed a service member since 1961. Geoffrey Corn, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and a military law expert at Texas Tech, joined Dallas News Live to explain what the decision means.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0October 6, 2026 1:52pm CDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump approved the use of a firing squad for the execution of a former Army psychiatrist behind&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-458297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}