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T<br \/>he Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution, Parnell said, adding, &#8220;Judgment day for Hasan has finally come.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has ordered the use of a firing squad to execute the former US Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in a 2009 shooting spree the gunman later described as retaliation for US wars in the Muslim world, the Pentagon said on Monday.Putting former US Army Major Nidal Hasan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump orders firing squad for gunman who killed 13 - 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