Fort Hood attacker Nidal Hasan will be put to death by firing squad.
The Pentagon says it will livestream the military's first firing squad execution in decades, allowing the public to watch as the man who killed 13 people in a 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood is put to death.
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed in an interview this week to let the public watch a firing squad execute former US Army Major Nidal Hasan at the same base in Texas where he carried out the massacre.
The decision has drawn swift backlash from both sides of the political aisle.
The UN human rights office told AFP that livestreaming it would be tantamount to a public execution and would breach the absolute prohibition of torture.
Alonzo Lunsford, a former US Army sergeant who was shot seven times in the attack, told the BBC's Today programme that he supported the execution by firing squad, as a method "befitting" for what Hasan did.
But he does not believe everyone should be able to watch the livestream, as it could send the wrong message to young people.
Hasan, a psychiatrist, was convicted in July 2013 of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder.
During his trial, he told the panel of 13 officers that he was targeting soldiers who would deploy to Afghanistan and were going to engage in an illegal war.
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