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Pentagon says Fort Hood shooter to face public execution

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Pentagon officials said on Thursday that the Army officer convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting will be executed in public, a practice that ended in the United States nearly a century ago and is now carried out in only a handful of circumstances. Commenters have reacted strongly, with many calling the mass shooting an atrocity and debating the extraordinary choice of a public execution.

Why now: The Pentagon's announcement of a public execution, a punishment essentially unseen in the US for decades, is a striking and unprecedented legal development.

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