Pentagon’s plan to livestream an execution resurrects America’s darkest history, critics say

The Pentagon’s unprecedented plan to livestream the firing squad execution of a former Army officer convicted in the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, drew immediate backlash from military experts, human rights groups and religious leaders who condemned it as a “barbaric” spectacle befitting terror organizations and totalitarian regimes — which they warned could unleash further harm beyond the original atrocity.