ABC’s The View found yet another way for their fans to be worried about the country’s reputation on Monday, in which the public execution of a mass murderer would make the United States look like a merciless country. In discussion of the possible public execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, the co-hosts invoked dictatorship regimes, terrorist propaganda, and the United States’ history of racial violence to argue against the execution.
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg kicked off the discussion with how private executions “was the last bastion of humanity,” and what the implementation of this practice on Hasan would say about America. Alarmingly, she seemed more consumed with how the country would be perceived rather than the deaths of Americans caused by said terrorist.
This prompted co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin to make the claim that the United States would be in the company of terrorist regimes famous for murdering innocent people: “The only nations on earth that do this are Iran, North Korea one, Iraq ones that we don’t lump ourselves in with generally from a morality perspective.”
Griffin then went on to warn that terrorists could use this footage of Hasan’s execution as propaganda for other terrorist groups: “But, most importantly, it would be giving this terrorist exactly what he wanted. It would be used in terrorist recruitment propaganda all over the world. We would be making a martyr out of him. It’s out of step with our values. I think they will have to reverse course and it absolutely should not be live streamed.”
The View says the Trump administration is destroying America’s “humanity” with possible public execution of a convicted terrorist, say it’s reminds them of dictatorships. pic.twitter.com/gklvriBu5b— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 12, 2026
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