The Pentagon wants to bring back public executions via livestream
Because nothing screams modern dystopia quite like taking an old-school firing squad and tossing it onto a high-definition video feed.
The military is planning to execute Nidal Hasan by firing squad right at Fort Hood, the location of his 2009 mass shooting. But the wildest twist isn't the method—it's that the Pentagon wants to livestream the event to the public.
America has not held a public execution since the 1930s. Back then, massive crowds packed dusty courthouse lawns in fedoras; now military brass is preparing high-bandwidth servers for a virtual audience.
Society officially came full circle from town square gallows straight into broadband reality television.
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