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Vance Says He Would Not Watch Livestreamed Execution of Fort Hood Shooter

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The vice president also cast doubt on whether the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the 2009 Fort Hood gunman, would go forward as Pentagon officials have planned.

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Both outlets center on JD Vance’s doubt about the firing-squad execution proceeding, but the BBC frames the story around Vance’s refusal to watch and adds the planned execution would be the first military execution in more than 60 years. The Guardian US instead foregrounds uncertainty over whether the livestream will happen and says, in its headline, that more Republicans are joining the outcry.

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