President Donald Trump approved the execution by firing squad of Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, convicted for killing 13 people in a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, according to a Pentagon spokesperson’s post on X on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026. The decision moves Hasan’s case toward an execution, but no date or location has been announced. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll will make those decisions, spokesperson Sean Parnell said. Parnell wrote that “judgment day for Hasan has finally come.” Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, opened fire with a handgun inside a medical building where soldiers were undergoing checkups. Thirteen people died and more than 30 were injured. The military has not carried out a death sentence since 1961. Trump’s approval would therefore precede a historically rare execution under the military justice system, though the timing remains undetermined.