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Retired general predicts Trump’s firing-squad fantasy will implode
What happened
AlterNet reports that President Donald Trump is reconsidering having Nidal Malik Hasan executed by firing squad after learning that Hasan, now 60, is paralyzed from the chest down and uses a wheelchair. Citing CBS News and a discussion on The Bulwark’s “Command Post” podcast, the report says the physical reality of the proposed execution may not produce the spectacle Trump expected.
Retired Gen. Mark Hertling and former prosecutor Margaret Donovan said the proposal would also create serious logistical, regulatory and ethical problems for the Army. Military executions are…
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