
副总统万斯周五表示,如果五角大楼真的在12月对尼达尔·哈桑的处决进行直播,他也不会观看。
Vice President Vance said on Friday that he will not be watching the execution of Nidal Hasan if the Pentagon follows through on livestreaming the event in December.
万斯周五在俄亥俄州利马对记者说:“我看到了相关公告,但不知道这是否真的会实施。”
"I've seen those announcements. I don't know if that's actually going to happen,” Vance told reporters in Lima, Ohio on Friday.
他接着说道:“在我看来,此人制造了9·11事件之后美国本土最严重的恐怖袭击。
“This is a guy who committed, in my view, the worst terrorist attack on American soil outside of 9-11,” he continued.
他本应治疗那些患有精神疾病及其他问题的士兵,却在他们最脆弱的时候将他们杀害。”
“The people that he was meant to treat, the army soldiers he was meant to treat for mental illness and other problems, he took them at their most vulnerable, and gunned down these people where they lived.”
他还强调:“无论关于处决方式的争议如何,我希望人们不要忘记此人残忍杀害了许多无辜民众。”
“So whatever the controversy is about the method of the execution, I hope that people don’t forget that this is a guy who brutally murdered a lot of innocent people,” he said.
最后他表示:“话虽如此,如果最终真的进行直播,我也不会观看。”
“Now that said, if it’s ultimately livestreamed, I’m not going to be watching it.”
国防部长皮特·赫格斯eth周四宣布,公众将可以观看哈桑被行刑队处决的全程。
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday that the public would be able to watch Hasan’s execution by firing squad.
他在接受保守派媒体《真实美国之声》采访时说:“我们会确保民众能够观看,让这一过程公开化。”这一决定随即引发了两党的强烈反对。
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public,” Hegseth said in an interview with the conservative outlet Real America’s Voice. The announcement sparked immediate bipartisan backlash.
佐治亚州共和党众议员奥斯汀·斯科特在社交平台X上写道:“我完全支持死刑判决,但直播处决是极端分子才会做的事,美国不应如此。”
“I absolutely support the sentence of death, but live-streaming executions is what jihadists do. America is better than that,” Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.) said in a post on X. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) called the move “disgusting” during an interview on CNN.
康涅狄格州民主党参议员克里斯·墨菲在接受CNN采访时则称这一举措“令人作呕”,他质问道:“他这是在模仿‘伊斯兰国’的处决方式吗?
“What is he, mimicking ISIS executions?”Murphy said.