Vance on Hegseth plan for livestreamed execution: 'I'm not going to be watching it'
Criminal Justice,Capital Punishment And Death Penalty,Pete Hegseth,Violence In America,Common Ground,Morality
Vice President Vance said Friday that he will not be watching the execution of Nidal Hasan if the Pentagon follows through on livestreaming the event in December.
"I've seen those announcements. I don't know if that's actually going to happen," Vance told reporters Friday in Lima, Ohio.
"This is a guy who committed, in my view, the worst terrorist attack on American soil outside of 9/11," he continued. "The people that he was meant to treat, the army soldiers he was meant to treat for mental illness and other problems, he took them at their most vulnerable, and gunned down these people where they lived."...
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