Execution by firing squad and live streamed
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The decision by the US Defence Department to live stream the execution of a man convicted of murdering thirteen unarmed soldiers at a military post in Texas in 2009 has sparked global headlines.
The Pentagon announced earlier this week it would execute Nidal Hasan in December in the first military execution for more than 60 years.
On this episode of Behind The Story we talk to death row lawyer Clive Stafford-Smith who has represented hundreds of people sentenced to death over the past four decades.
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