The United Nations has called US plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan "abhorrent" and said it could be a violation of prohibitions against torture.
"These kinds of public executions can constitute a form of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment," UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told a daily UN briefing in New York on Friday.
"Showing it live is tantamount to it being public and could be a violation of the prohibition against torture," he said.
"A government executing someone in public, or in front of live cameras, frankly, is abhorrent."
Hasan is set to become the first person to be executed by a US military firing squad since 1945.
The execution is scheduled for December 3 at the same sprawling Texas base where Hasan opened fire with a handgun in a medical facility.
The UN human rights office also warned that the US plan would breach the “absolute prohibition of torture".
"The live streaming of an execution is tantamount to a public execution and would breach the absolute prohibition of torture," UN human rights office spokesperson Shabia Mantoo told reporters in Geneva.
She stressed that such practices constituted "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."
"Failure to respect this prohibition would inevitably render the execution arbitrary in nature and result in a violation of the right to life," Mantoo said.
Hasan was sentenced to death for fatally shooting 13 US soldiers at Fort Hood military base in Texas in 2009.
He has since been held at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth announced he planned to make Hasan's execution public.
