🚨Alert: President Trump approves a Firing Squad for the Fort Hood shooter!!
The last American serviceman executed by a US military firing squad was Private Eddie Slovik, on January 31, 1945.
He was shot at about 10:04 a.m. near Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, France, by a 12-man squad from the 109th Infantry Regiment using M1 Garands (11 live rounds, one blank).
He had been court-martialed for desertion in the face of the enemy; General Dwight Eisenhower confirmed the sentence!!