Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: Trump has approved the use of a firing squad for the execution of Nidal Hasan, who was convicted of killing 13 people and wounding dozens of others in the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas. It would be the US Army’s first such execution of a soldier since World War II. https://cnn.it/4yToHTf

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