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Trump approves execution by firing squad for 2009 Ft. Hood mass killer

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CNN's Brian Todd joins Wolf Blitzer in the Situation Room to discuss the approval of a firing squad to execute the man convicted of killing 13 people and wounding dozens more in the 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, Texas. This will be the Army’s first such execution since World War II and its first imposition of any death penalty on a service member in 65 years.

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