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US President Donald Trump announced that the firing squad execution of an ex-US army psychiatrist who killed 13 people on a military base will not be livestreamed.
According to Sky News, US defence secretary Pete Hegseth previously said the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, which is set to take place on 3 December, would be "public."
But in a post today on his social network, Truth Social, on Thursday, October 15, Trump said the livestream would no longer go ahead.
He wrote, "I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists and SCUM like Hasan but, many very good and well-meaning people would rather not watch him die, through streaming, or through any other visual device."
"He will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed," the 80-year-old added.
Some of Trump's fellow Republicans, including Vice President JD Vance, as well as religious leaders and international observers, had expressed doubts about the Pentagon's plan to livestream the execution.
Recent polls have also shown that a majority of Americans were against it.
Hasan, a former US army psychiatrist, was found guilty in a military trial of fatally shooting 13 people at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009.
He walked into a medical building and shouted "Allahu akbar" before firing shots using a laser-sighted handgun. He also shot at the backs of soldiers fleeing towards the car park.
He later said it was an attempt to stop them from going to Afghanistan and killing his fellow Muslims.
Hasan was left paralysed from the waist down after being shot in the back by officers responding to the attack, and he now uses a wheelchair.
