FORT HOOD, Texas — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is seeking the death penalty for former Army doctor Nidal Hasan who killed 14 people in a mass shooting on Fort Hood in 2009.

“I am 100 percent committed to ensuring the death penalty is carried out for Nidal Hasan. This savage terrorist deserves the harshest lawful punishment for his 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood. The victims and survivors deserve justice without delays," Hegseth confirmed in a statement sent to 6 News.

Hasan walked into Fort Hood’s Soldier Readiness Processing Center on Nov. 5, 2009 and began shooting, resulting in 14 deaths and more than 30 people injured.

By December of 2013, Hasan was convicted by a military court-martial and officially dishonorably discharged by the military, thereby stripped of his military dis

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