Politics● LowOct 6 · Oct 6, 2026, 12:25 AM
Donald Trump approved a death penalty by firing squad, after the Christa Pike scandal
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It will be applied to Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who murdered 13 people at a military base in Texas in 2009. This comes days after Pike's failed execution in Tennessee.
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