standing to object with a petition, known as habeas corpus, in U.S. District Court.

 Arguing the Army can't livestream it because some parent wouldn't be able to stop their kid from watching it on the computer strikes me as a very unlikely piece of litigation,  Fidell said.  Better legal minds than me maybe can come up with a way to make that argument, but I don't see it. 

Last firing squad was in WWII

Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who held the rank of major, walked into a medical building on Nov. 5, 2009, where soldiers at Fort Hood were waiting to receive medical clearance for deployment. He shouted  Allahu akbar  - Arabic for  God is great!  - and opened fire and also shot at the backs of soldiers fleeing toward the parking lot.

Hasan said it was an effort to stop them from going to Afghanistan and killing his fellow Muslims. He is paralyzed from the waist down after being shot in the back by law enforcement, and he now uses a wheelchair.

Clergy, including U.S. Catholic bishops, and some officials criticized the livestreaming announcement. Vice President JD Vance, meanwhile, told reporters that he wouldn't watch it and expressed some doubt whether a livestream would happen.

President Donald Trump signed off on Hasan's execution, which would be the first by a firing squad since World War II. The last military execution happened on April 13, 1961, when Army Pvt. John Bennett was killed by hanging.

A 2023 update to the Army regulation on executions gave the Secretary of the Army discretion on choosing a method, in part to ease hurdles to conducting executions at Guantanamo Bay, Fidell said.

Hasan's execution would likely be put on hold for years - if he simply exercises his right to challenge the death sentence in federal court, said Robert Dunham, a Philadelphia lawyer and director of the Death Penalty Policy Project.

 The decision on the execution method will depend upon who is Secretary of Defense when the case becomes final and whether there is still a death penalty when that happens,  Dunham said.