Public executions are the work of tyrants. Now, the U.S. is joining in

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Iran. Afghanistan. North Korea. Somalia. And now, the United States. If Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is to be believed, America will soon gain the dubious distinction of joining the only four countries on the globe that carry out executions in public. Hegseth said Thursday that he wanted the execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter, Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, to be available for public viewing. “It was a radical Islamist attack … so he’s going to get a firing squad of soldiers, as it should be,” Hegseth said in an interview with far-right political activist Jack Posobiec. “We’ll make…

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