US House Speaker says execution livestream could be terrorist ‘recruiting tool’

WASHINGTON: US House Speaker Mike Johnson said he had reservations about a planned livestreamed execution in an interview broadcast by CBS News on Monday. Nidal Hasan, 56, was sentenced to be executed by firing squad on December 3 at Fort Hood, Texas, where he shot and killed 13 people in 2009. The decision to livestream the execution — which would be the first US military execution by firing squad since 1945 — has drawn widespread blowback, with the top congressional Republican adding his vo