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President Trump Approves Firing Squad Execution for Fort Hood Shooter | Crime Alert 10.09.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, hourly update, breaking crime news now. I'm Sydney Silvani.
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  Speaker 1: President Donald Trump has approved the firing squad execution of
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  Speaker 1: Fort Hood killer Nidal Hassan, paving the way for the
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  Speaker 1: first U.S. military execution in 65 years. Defense Secretary Pete
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  Speaker 1: Hegseth recommended death by U.S. Army firing squad for former
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  Speaker 1: Major Nidal Hassan, 56, and Trump has now approved the plans,
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  Speaker 1: Chief Pentagon Spokesperson Sean Parnell announced on X on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: October 5th. Parnell wrote that the Secretary of the Army
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  Speaker 1: will set the time and place of the execution, adding
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  Speaker 1: that Judgment Day for Hassan has finally come. Hegseth retweeted
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  Speaker 1: the post, writing, justice If carried out, Hassan's execution would
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  Speaker 1: be the first U.S. military execution since 1961, when 18-year-old
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  Speaker 1: Private John Bennett was put to death after being convicted
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  Speaker 1: of the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old girl. Hassan,
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  Speaker 1: a Medical Corps psychiatrist, was convicted of killing 13 and
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  Speaker 1: injuring 32 at the Fort Hood Army Base on November 5, 2009.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve of those killed and 30 of those wounded were soldiers.
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  Speaker 1: At the time, it was the deadliest shooting on an
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  Speaker 1: American military base. According to the Death Penalty Information Center,
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  Speaker 1: Hassan is one of just four people on death row
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  Speaker 1: in the U.S. resulting from a military court martial. Hassan,
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  Speaker 1: who was shot and partially paralyzed by a police officer
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  Speaker 1: who responded to the shooting, was sentenced to death by
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  Speaker 1: a military court in 2013. During his court martial, he
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  Speaker 1: said his motive was to defend the leaders of the
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  Speaker 1: Taliban in Afghanistan. The Supreme Court denied a petition from
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  Speaker 1: Hassan seeking to have his case heard in 2025, removing
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  Speaker 1: a further hurdle to his execution. Under federal law, a
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  Speaker 1: person convicted through a court-martial and sentenced to death cannot
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  Speaker 1: be executed without the president's approval. Hegseth said in September
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  Speaker 1: 2025 that he had asked Trump to approve Hassan's execution,
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  Speaker 1: stating he was 100 percent committed to ensuring the death
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  Speaker 1: penalty is carried out. calling Hassan a savage terrorist who
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  Speaker 1: deserves the harshest lawful punishment and saying victims deserve justice
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  Speaker 1: without delays. More crime and justice news after this. The
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  Speaker 1: father of two toddlers whose mother is charged in connection
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  Speaker 1: with their starvation deaths has spoken about his devastating loss.
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  Speaker 1: The children, 15-month-old Harlow Deacon and 2-year-old Emery Deacon, were
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  Speaker 1: found dead in their Ladson, South Carolina home on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: September 29, when police conducted a welfare check. Their mother,
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  Speaker 1: 31-year-old Justine May, appeared incoherent when police arrived at her
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  Speaker 1: residence and has since been arrested, according to a criminal affidavit.
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  Speaker 1: The children's father, Zach Deacon, has issued a statement through
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  Speaker 1: his lawyer, Gedney Howe IV, saying they believe these deaths
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  Speaker 1: could and should have been prevented, stating that neighbors, friends,
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  Speaker 1: and family all called trying to get help for these girls,
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  Speaker 1: and no one listened. Zach had tried to contact May
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  Speaker 1: in the days before the girls were found dead, according
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  Speaker 1: to screenshots of text exchanges May shared on social media,
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  Speaker 1: begging May to get help and reminding her that she
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  Speaker 1: had always been a good mother. May accused him and
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  Speaker 1: her mother of harassing her. May's mother also said she
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  Speaker 1: was worried for the safety of the girls, referencing the
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  Speaker 1: case of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy, who was charged with
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  Speaker 1: murder and the deaths of her three children. According to
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  Speaker 1: a screenshot of an email shared online by May, her
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  Speaker 1: mother described her worst nightmares about what could happen, writing
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  Speaker 1: about the dark entity behind Justine's eyes. After her arrest,
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  Speaker 1: May allegedly told police she had been in a blur
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  Speaker 1: in the two weeks before the killings and could not
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  Speaker 1: remember when she last fed them. A coroner ruled her
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  Speaker 1: daughters died from starvation. May has been charged with two
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  Speaker 1: counts of homicide by child abuse. It was not clear
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  Speaker 1: from online court records if she had entered pleas or
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  Speaker 1: retained an attorney. Two suspects wanted in the brutal stabbing
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  Speaker 1: of off-duty NYPD detective Jose Mercedes have been arrested overnight
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  Speaker 1: after authorities tracked them to a Massachusetts home. NYPD detectives
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  Speaker 1: and U.S. Marshals arrested D'Angelo Rafael Jean Caraballo, 25, and
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  Speaker 1: Snyder Mejia Bautista, 24, in Lynn, Massachusetts, finding them hiding
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  Speaker 1: in a basement. Caraballo and Bautista, Dominican citizens living in
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. illegally with lengthy criminal records, face attempted murder charges.
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  Speaker 1: Police say the pair attacked Detective Mercedes in the Bronx
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  Speaker 1: while trying to snatch his gold chain. Mercedes fought back
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  Speaker 1: but was stabbed and slashed seven times before pursuing them
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  Speaker 1: for two blocks and collapsing. He was released from Jacoby
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  Speaker 1: Medical Center this week, walking out of his wheelchair to
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  Speaker 1: applause from hundreds of officers after visits from Police Commissioner
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  Speaker 1: Jessica Tisch and Mayor Zoran Mamdani. Department of Homeland Security
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  Speaker 1: Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen criticized sanctuary policies, stating the crime
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  Speaker 1: could have been prevented and calling on local officials to
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  Speaker 1: cooperate with federal immigration authorities. According to DHS, both men
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  Speaker 1: entered unlawfully through Arizona and were released into the country
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  Speaker 1: by the Biden administration. Caraballo's priors include firearm possession, reckless endangerment,
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  Speaker 1: and menacing. Bautista's record includes grand larceny and weapon possession.
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  Speaker 1: DHS noted NYC sanctuary policies previously blocked an ICE detainer
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  Speaker 1: for Bautista, while both men had been released after prior
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  Speaker 1: arrests before detainers could be launched. For more crime and
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  Speaker 1: justice news, be sure to join us for Crime Stories
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  Speaker 1: now streaming on Tubi. With This Crime Alert, I'm Sydney Silvani.