Trump Cancels a Plan to Livestream a December Execution

PBS NewsHour reported in its Thursday news wrap that President Trump canceled plans to livestream the December execution of Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter. The change concerns the broadcast rather than the scheduled date: the execution is still set for December, without the cameras the administration had planned to turn on. An execution is a state act performed on a person, and a livestream would have converted it into scheduled programming with an audience. Canceling the stream removes the spectators; it leaves the question of what an audience was supposed to add.