众议院多数党鞭汤姆·埃默（R-明尼苏达州）周日表示，他“非常高兴”总统特朗普将决定是否对被定罪的福特胡德枪手尼达尔·哈桑的枪决进行直播。
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) on Sunday said he is “so happy” that President Trump will decide on whether to livestream the execution by firing squad of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan.
“我非常高兴我们有一位总统、这个国家的首席执行官，他将做出符合美国人民最大利益的决定，”埃默在表示他不支持死刑之后对ABC新闻的乔纳森·卡尔说，“他将让罪犯和恐怖分子承担责任。”埃默继续说道。“坦率地说，如果你来到这个国家或在这个国家被激进化以杀害美国人并破坏我们的生活方式，就应该面临重大后果。”特朗普周六曾表示，他将“最终决定”是否直播该执行。
“I am so happy that we have a president, a chief executive in this country, who will make a decision which is in the best interest of the American people,” Emmer, who prefaced by saying he does not favor the death penalty, told ABC’s Jonathan Karl on “This Week.”“He will hold the criminals and the terrorists accountable,” Emmer continued. “And, frankly, if you come to this country or you’re radicalized in this country to kill Americans and disrupt our way of life, there should be significant consequences.”Trump had said on Saturday that he will “make a decision ultimately” about streaming the execution.
“有两种想法：不播放和播放，因为你知道通过播放，也许其他人就不会像他那样行事了，”特朗普在白宫外对记者说。“所以我最终会做出决定。我知道军方希望怎么做，但我们会做出决定。”上周，白宫发言人确认国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯“建议”将哈桑的死刑通过枪决方式在12月3日执行，而特朗普总统“批准”了这一决定。
“There are two thoughts: Don’t show it and show it, because you know by showing it, maybe other people won’t be doing what he did,” Trump told reporters outside the White House. “So I’ll make a decision ultimately. I know what the military would like to do, but we’ll make a decision.”Last week, a White House spokesperson confirmed that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “recommended” Hasan’s execution be carried out by firing squad on Dec. 3, and President Trump “approved” it.
哈桑是一名前陆军精神科医生，他在2009年11月对福特胡德处理中心开火，造成12名士兵和1名平民死亡。他在此次事件中还导致32人受伤，这是美国军事设施史上死亡人数最多的大规模枪击事件。
Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, opened fire at the Fort Hood processing center in November 2009, killing 12 soldiers and one civilian. He injured 32 others in what was the deadliest mass shooting ever on a U.S. military installation.
哈桑在2013年的审判中担任自己的律师，在开场陈述中表示，“证据将清楚地表明我是枪手”，并补充说他发动这起大规模枪击是为了回应美国在阿富汗和伊拉克的战争。
Hasan acted as his own attorney during his 2013 trial, saying in his opening statement that the “evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter,” adding that he carried out the mass shooting in response to the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
美国上一次使用枪决执行死刑是在1945年，处决对象是陆军士兵埃迪·斯洛维克。他因逃兵罪被判处死刑，是二战期间4万名逃兵中的一人，洛杉矶书评在2014年对电影《斯洛维克的处决》的回顾中提到这一点，该片由马丁·辛恩主演。斯洛维克的处决是自内战以来，首次因逃兵罪对士兵执行死刑。
The last execution by firing squad in the U.S. was of Army Private Eddie Slovik in 1945. He was convicted of desertion, one of the 40,000 service members to desert during World War II, the Los Angeles Review of Books wrote in a 2014 retrospective of the film “The Execution of Private Slovik,” starring Martin Sheen. Slovik’s execution was the first for a soldier convicted of desertion since the Civil War.
此后，美国军队最后一次执行死刑是在1961年，处决对象是陆军士兵约翰·A·贝内特。根据专注于死刑问题的全国性非营利组织“死刑信息中心”的资料，贝内特因被控强奸和未遂杀人罪而被绞死。
Since then, the last U.S. military execution was of U.S. Army Private John A. Bennett in 1961. Bennett was hanged after being convicted of rape and attempted murder, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a national nonprofit organization focused on the death penalty.
副总统万斯周五告诉记者，如果该处决获批准进行直播，他不会观看。他还说，他“不知道那实际上会不会发生。”
Vice President Vance told reporters Friday that he will not be watching the execution if it is approved to be livestreamed. He added that he did not “know that that’s actually going to happen.”