A Texas Tech military law expert explains the Fort Hood firing squad order
Geoffrey Corn, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, joined Dallas News Live, and his segment drew more than four hundred comments in nine hours.
FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth
Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 82,803 views a day, 19 times a normal first day on this channel (4,324).
Expert weighs in on firing squad executions
The military has not executed one of its own since 1961. That long gap frames a Dallas News Live segment in which Geoffrey Corn, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who works as a military law expert at Texas Tech, explained what President Trump's approval of a firing squad for Nidal Hasan means.
Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, carried out the 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, the Central Texas post where 12 soldiers and one civilian were killed and 32 more people were injured.
The segment passed 46,000 views in its first nine hours. A regular FOX 4 video usually ends its whole first day at around 4,000. And this came on a day when the channel overall was running below its usual pace.
The comment section moved even further from routine. A first day here normally brings only a handful of comments, and this one had more than four hundred within nine hours. Most of them come back to the same point: how many years the case has taken. Several viewers also wrote in with a correction for the interview, noting that John F. Kennedy, not Lyndon Johnson, was president in 1961.
The rest of the station's uploads stayed close to home: a lawsuit that put a Granbury recall vote on hold, and Plano residents meeting to oppose a new Dallas Stars arena.
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- Channel
- FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth
- Subscribers
- 1,020,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 5,451,823
- Channel views, pace per day
- 476,716 (on a normal day: 670,355)
- Video published
- October 6, 2026
- Video views so far
- 46,489 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 82,803
The numbers
The figures below show a single segment pulling far ahead of the station's usual first day, on an otherwise quiet day for the channel.
