Pete Hegseth’s Firing Squad Livestream Is Finding Fans in the Defense Industry

Source Scout · Mother Jones reports: Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Anduril Industries, delivers a speech in Taipei, Taiwan, September 19, 2026. Chiang Ying-ying/AP “I have been outspoken on wanting public executions for over a decade.” So said Palmer Luckey, the co-founder of Anduril Industries, a military technology company that sells autonomous drones and software to the Defense Department, Customs and Border Protection, and militaries abroad in a vocal defense of “public and brutal” executions in general, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream the execution of Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hasan in particular.

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WilluChill News DeskFiring · Published Tuesday, October 13, 2026 at 1:35 AM UTCUpdated Tuesday, October 13, 2026 at 6:30 AM UTC

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