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Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream execution puts US in dubious company

The Guardian UK · 9 October 2026 at 14:55

Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream execution puts US in dubious company

Only Iran and Afghanistan currently systematically carry out capital sentences in public, with Saudi Arabia appearing to have ended practice US politics – live If the US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, goes ahead with plans to livestream the execution of a soldier radicalised to extremist Islam who killed 13 people at a military base in Texas, his country will join a motley assembly of lesser powers and rogue actors who have conducted public executions in recent years.

Only two countries currently systematically carry out capital sentences in public: Iran and Afghanistan.

In 2025, the Taliban authorities carried out six such killings and the regime in Tehran 11, according to Amnesty International.

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Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream execution puts US in dubious company

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