These will be the first Military Executions since 1961
It has been almost 17 years since U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan killed 13 and wounded 32 unarmed, defenseless victims at Ft. Hood, Texas.
In March 2025, the United States Supreme Court denied Hasan's final petition for a review of his trial, which cleared the way for his execution.
There are actually three other military members awaiting execution.
They are:
Hasan Akbar who threw four hand grenades into three tents and fired his rifle at fellow soldiers in 2003 in Kuwait. Two were killed, 14 were wounded.
Ronald Gray, who was convicted in 1988 of three counts of premeditated murder, attempted murder and three counts of rape.
Timothy Hennis, who was convicted in 1986 in North Carolina state court of raping a woman and murdering her and two of her daughters.
“The Army is preparing to carry out the executions of the military’s four death-row inmates if ordered to do so by the president, according to an internal planning document reviewed by ABC News. If carried out, it would mark the first time the military executed convicted American inmates in more than a half-century.
The plan, dubbed “Operation Resolute Justice” and issued internally in February, directs Army officials to coordinate with the Federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer condemned prisoners from the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to the federal execution facility in Terre Haute, Indiana, where the Justice Department carried out a series of non-military federal executions during President Donald Trump’s first term.”
I’m not an ardent supporter of executions - but I do feel the death penalty should be maintained for the worst cases. There should be extensive reviews and use of the latest analytical techniques such as DNA sampling to ensure an innocent person is not executed.
After multiple decades of reviews and analysis, that bar seems to have been met and well exceeded for these four.
