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Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who oversees Catholic pastoral services for the U.S. military, stated on Monday that Catholics assigned to the firing squad for Nidal Malik Hasan must request to be excused from the execution.
The planned event, scheduled for December 3 at Fort Hood, would mark the first U.S. military execution by firing squad since 1945 and the first of any kind since 1961.
Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist now 56 years old, was convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in a 2009 attack at Fort Hood.
He currently uses a wheelchair after being shot by responding officers during the incident.
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