US plans for livestreamed execution would put it in company with few nations

The U.S. would join a very short list of nations that carry out capital punishment in public if it goes forward with plans to live-stream a military execution this year. Only two countries carried out the death penalty in public last year, according to Amnesty International’s tracking of 2,700 executions in 17 countries. Iran executed 11 people publicly and Afghanistan killed six, the human rights organization said. The Pentagon announced Thursday that it would live stream the Dec. 3 execution by firing squad of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood, Texas, the first military execution in more…