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Fort Hood survivor wants "full justice" as Hasan's execution is set

FOX 7's Killeen report pairs Julia Wilson's account with a Yale Law instructor's warning that appeals could delay the December firing squad for years.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 54,717 views a day, 88 times a normal first day on this channel (620).

Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan's execution to be livestreamed; survivors react | FOX 7 Austin

Julia Wilson was pregnant when the shooting at Fort Hood began in November 2009. Now that an execution date has been set for Nidal Hasan, the former Army major and psychiatrist who killed 13 people that day, she is not treating it as the end of her story. "If you're going to give justice, give full justice," she tells FOX 7 Austin.

Reporter Dominique Leh speaks with her at a memorial to the victims in Killeen. The report lays out the announcement: Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said on X that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recommended, and President Donald Trump approved, death by firing squad. The execution is scheduled for December 3 at 1 p.m. at Fort Hood. The Pentagon intends to livestream it, and it would be the first U.S. military execution since 1961.

Over archive footage from the day of the attack, Wilson remembers the sound: "The gunfire was so rapid. It was almost like an M16 going off." Her request is specific. She wants the shooting officially classified as domestic terrorism rather than workplace violence, and she wants civilian victims to receive equal benefits. "We've fought for 17 years to be heard," she says.

The date may not hold. Eugene Fidell, who teaches military justice at Yale Law, explains that a habeas corpus petition could stretch the case out: "If he seeks habeas corpus, he will outlive the Trump administration."

The report drew close to 55,000 views in its first day, where a FOX 7 news report of this length usually draws a few hundred, and its comments ran into the hundreds on a channel whose longer reports usually get almost none. Many viewers ask how the livestream could be watched. Others ask why it took 17 years, and whether every execution should be public.

The station's earlier short on the firing squad decision came first, as we reported here. That same weekend, FOX 7 cameras were also on the steps of the Texas Capitol for the annual rally against the death penalty, where families, activists and exonerated former death row inmates spoke to a far smaller audience.

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