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In a disturbingly dystopian update, the US government have confirmed that an execution at the Pentagon will be live streamed on the internet.

Following the botched execution of Christa Pike, which has dominated news across the world in recent weeks, the US clearly want to send a different message when it comes to Nidal Malik Hasan, who is scheduled to die in December.

Despite Pike’s execution going horribly wrong, with the 50-year-old now conscious and talking in hospital, Jamaal Howard was also put to death by lethal injection earlier this week using the same controversial drug, and he wouldn’t survive it.

The death penalty is already a hugely debated topic and isn’t something we’ve seen in the UK since 1964, but in the US they happen on a fairly regular basis, albeit behind closed doors with only family of the convict and any of their victims permitted to attend.

A public execution feels medieval but now the planned firing squad execution of Hasan later this year at the Pentagon will be plastered on the internet for all to see after US defence secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed that it would be ‘public’, which will be the first since Rainey Bethea was killed in Kentucky 90 years ago.

Pete Hegseth made it clear that he wants Hasan’s death to be public (Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)

“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Mr Hegseth told conservative TV outlet Real America’s Voice News.

But who is Hasan? And what did he do to warrant such a violent method of death that the US government felt needed to be live-streamed online?

The 56-year-old worked in the US Army as a major and a physician, but in 2009 his intentions as an Islamic terrorist became clear, as he infiltrated Fort Hood and shot 13 unarmed soldiers dead, injuring 33 others.

“People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” said Hegseth.

Hasan represented himself in a 2013 trial and admitted responsibility for the killings, later claiming that he had ‘switched sides’ in a ‘war against Islam’ that he believed had been wagered by the US.

Despite problems that plagued Hasan’s service in the army, which included him making ‘outlandish’ statements about the US military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hasan continued to progress upwards through the army.

He even reportedly said that ‘the Muslims should stand up and fight against the aggressor’, when referring to American soldiers as the aggressors.

A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed that Trump has approved the idea (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

On November 5 2009, he committed the worst shooting against armed forces on an American military base, and he has remained incarcerated at US army barracks ever since.

While Hesgeth and Donald Trump, who has approved the Defence Secretary’s recommendation, feel that Hasan should be publicly executed, thankfully there would be significant legal obstacles for this to overcome.

John Mills, a lawyer who works with inmates sentenced to death, called the decision to livestream it ‘unprecedented in the modern era’.

He told the BBC: “Seeking to make it livestreamed, a firing squad execution, is little more than attention-seeking by the Trump administration and is unlikely to occur, much less deliver any semblance of justice.”

LADbible has contacted the White House for comment.

Warning: This article contains discussion of suicide which some readers may find distressing.

The three sisters from west London, whose bodies were recovered from the sea off Brighton, cleared some of their bank accounts in the days leading up to their deaths.

The bodies of Jane Adetoro, 36, Christina Walters, 32, and Rebecca Walters, 31, were pulled from the water on 13 May.

Senior coroner Penelope Schofield ruled their deaths as a suicide, but admitted that it ‘sadly may never be known’ why they took their lives.

“Many of the ladies’ accounts had been cleared of funds and in some cases debts had been settled,” Schofield said.

“Jane and her sister Rebecca shared the lease on their two bedroom flat.

“It showed very few belongings and looked like it had been cleaned.”

On 11 May, the sisters, who had lived ‘very secluded lives’, travelled to Birmingham and were dropped off close to their mother’s former home, near to where she had drowned more than 16 years earlier.

Emergency services attended the scene at around 5.45am on 13 May (Getty Stock Images)

After spending 90 minutes in Birmingham, they then took a taxi back to London in the early hours of 12 May and headed to Brighton that evening, arriving at around 10.21pm.

They are thought to have last been seen alive on CCTV at 2.42am on 13 May. A cyclist reported seeing a body on the beach and emergency services attended the scene at around 5.45am.

Paying tribute to his daughters, Joseph Jacobson, who attended the Brighton inquest by videolink, said in a written statement: “There are no words that can adequately express the pain of losing a child.

“To lose all three of my precious daughters, Jane, Christina and Rebecca, is a heartbreak beyond anything I could ever have imagined.”

He said he ‘cannot understand why their lives ended so suddenly’, but added: “You were my daughters, you will always be my daughters and I will love you for the rest of my life.

“May your beautiful souls rest in perfect peace.”

Jacobson later asked the coroner: “Have police got any proof that it was a suicide attempt, because based on the laptop, she could have been researching that, but that doesn’t give police the final answer that it was a suicide attempt?”

Schofield replied: “All the police can do is provide the court with the evidence that they’ve found.”

Detective Chief Inspector Mark Cullimore said he had ‘remained open minded throughout and always considered whether there was third party involvement’ but he was now satisfied there had not been.

If you’ve been affected by any of these issues and want to speak to someone in confidence, please don’t suffer alone. Call Samaritans for free on their anonymous 24-hour phone line on 116 123 or contact Harmless by visiting their website https://harmless.org.uk.

October is rolling round again, bringing with it promises of lots of soft, warm colours, hot drinks, and cosy nights in.

But for many October may bring not warmth and coziness, not to mention Halloween, but a sense of dread at the approach of this particular month, and it’s all because of the ‘October Theory’.

The October Theory is that October acts a bit like a ‘second new year’.

It’s supposedly a time of year where you can pursue more new ideas or new projects, as well as being a time where important things can happen in your life, or so the theory goes anyway.

The theory has spread widely on social media, including on TikTok, where people share how they’ve come to believe that it is indeed true.

While the theory itself is just that, it could make sense for October to feel like a time of change.

This is the first full month of Autumn, where we have definitively left summer behind and the days are starting to get colder and shorter, and the leaves start to fall from the trees.

With that, it’s maybe not surprising that people might feel some sense of change or movement at this time of year.

A beautiful autumn, or the start of a horror movie? (Getty Stock)

Add to that the fact that new school and university years are underway in October and there could even an element of how our years were structured in childhood and early adulthood creating a sense that October is a time of new beginnings.

People took to the comments to share their own thoughts about the ‘October Theory’.

One wrote: “birthdays, breakups and parental deaths lmfao hard to argue w ya”.

Another replied: “October completed destroyed me one year and now it triggers something in me every year now”.

Therapists also have some theories about why October has captured some people’s attention in such a way.

Amanda Carnesecchi is an Associate Therapist at Gateway to Solutions, and told Vice: “We may feel more motivated during this time because we have been primed from a young age that fall is back-to-school season, which is associated with goals, learning, and growth.

It is the spooky season as well (Getty Stock)

“New beginnings, behavior shifts, and fresh mindsets are all elements we have been exposed to during this time of year.”

Meanwhile licensed therapist Bisi Gbadamosi said: “Fall is often a natural reset because it can be a final push right before the holiday season kicks in.

“It can remind us that the end of the year is quickly approaching and encourage us to work towards any final goals or projects we had for the year.”

Not only that, but Carnesecchi added that when we get to actual new year on 1 January there’s a lot more pressure for us to start thinking about the future and to try and set goals for ourselves.

“Come January 1st, there is immense pressure to start fresh or set new year goals,” said Carnesecchi. “These are great intentions, but having so much change at once can be overwhelming and can lead to goals not being met.”