President Donald Trump said the Pentagon will not livestream the scheduled execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, the former Army major convicted in the Fort Hood shooting.

The Pentagon had set Hasan’s execution for Dec. 3. Immediate family members of victims may attend in person.

Vice President JD Vance said he would not watch a livestreamed execution. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had announced earlier this month that Hasan’s execution would be public.

Sean Parnell said Trump and Hegseth discussed abandoning the livestream plan. “The Secretary supports the President’s decision, and they are completely aligned,” Parnell said.

Catholic leaders opposed livestream

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops condemned the decision to livestream the execution. Archbishop Paul S. Coakley described the proposal as “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson also opposed the plan.

Hasan opened fire at a medical building on Nov. 5, 2009. Law enforcement shot him in the back, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down; he now uses a wheelchair.

A military judge barred Hasan from presenting his stated motive as a defense during his 2013 trial.

The planned execution would use a firing squad. The U.S. military has not executed a service member by firing squad since World War II. John Bennett, executed on April 13, 1961, was the last service member executed by the military.