Nidal Malik Hasan, a former Army officer and psychiatrist who killed 13 people and injured 32 others during a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, will be executed by a U.S. Army firing squad, the Pentagon announced Monday.

“Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J. Trump has approved — death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009,” Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell announced. “He killed 13 people and wounded 32 others while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ during the attack.

“The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution,” he continued. “Judgement day for Hasan has finally come.”

If Hasan’s execution is indeed carried out by a firing squad, it would mark the first such case for the service since Jan. 31, 1945, when Pvt. Eddie D. Slovik was executed by a U.S. Army firing squad in France for desertion during World War II.

TOKYO (AP) — The arrest of a U.S. Marine on suspicion of robbing and killing a local woman on Okinawa has drawn condemnation from Japan's leaders and renewed protests against the heavy American military presence on the southern island.

The alleged killing could complicate Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s push to strengthen Japanese military defense on the island and to work more closely with the U.S. military to deter China in the region.

Okinawa prefectural police said they arrested Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, who is stationed at Futenma Air Station, on suspicion of strangling Anna Yagi, 39, at a hotel in the island’s capital city of Naha early Saturday and stealing her wallet and backpack. He has denied the allegations, according to Japanese media.

Security camera footage showed a man wearing a black top, trousers and white sneakers entering the hotel with the woman and later leaving alone.

Ballard was arrested when a patrolling officer saw him walking later Saturday in an entertainment district in Okinawa City, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) northeast of Naha. His shaved head and the tattoos on his arms matched those of the man in security footage, Kyodo news agency reported.

“I’m outraged and flabbergasted to hear that a suspect came to the (entertainment area) after committing a murder,” Kenji Higa, who lives in Okinawa City, told the Okinawa Times.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) is pushing legislation to stop the Navy from stripping the name of a Black World War II hero from an aircraft carrier and renaming the ship for President Donald Trump.

Doris "Dorie" Miller was a mess attendant aboard the battleship USS West Virginia, one of the few roles open to Black sailors under the segregation of the era. The Navy has reportedly contemplated renaming the future USS Doris Miller, a carrier still under construction, after the president. No change has been finalized.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) is pushing legislation to stop the Navy from stripping the name of a Black World War II hero from an aircraft carrier and renaming the ship for President Donald Trump.

Doris "Dorie" Miller was a mess attendant aboard the battleship USS West Virginia, one of the few roles open to Black sailors under the segregation of the era. The Navy has reportedly contemplated renaming the future USS Doris Miller, a carrier still under construction, after the president. No change has been finalized.

The Navy's consideration of the change has drawn objections from veterans, lawmakers and members of Miller's family, who see it as erasing a hard-won milestone in the service's history. Booker, in response, has introduced three bills that would block the change and tighten how the military names its warships.

Booker's bills are a preemptive move. As Military.com previously reported, the carrier was named for Miller in 2020, during Trump's first term.

Military.com reached out to Booker's office, the Department of Defense, the Navy and the White House for comment.