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- U.S. Defense Department announced livestream of Nidal Malik Hasan’s firing-squad execution on Dec. 3.
- Pope Leo XIV declared the death penalty inadmissible on World Day Against the Death Penalty.
- Cardinal Pietro Parolin called the livestream unacceptable and truly incomprehensible.
- Archbishop Paul Coakley labeled the livestream a barbaric promotion of a culture of death.
- Hasan was convicted for the 2009 Fort Hood shooting that killed 13 and wounded 32.