Dick Durbin
Role at the time: U.S. Senator from Illinois, in a post on X
Condemned
Statement summary
Sen. Dick Durbin said public executions have no place in a democracy and that the nation cannot stoop to the level of the people it seeks to punish.
“Public executions have no place in a democracy.”
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)Dick Durbin's post on the plan to livestream Nidal Hasan's execution (X post) · Dick DurbinFull post, Oct. 9, 2026, 12:45 p.m. EDT.
Dick Durbin's own post on an official account.
Why we used this label
The case asks whether Pete Hegseth should livestream Nidal Hasan's execution; it concerns the broadcast proposal, not Hasan's conviction or capital punishment. Durbin says "Public executions have no place in a democracy" in response to the livestream plan. That opposes the broadcast, so we labeled it Condemned. The closest competing label is Mixed or conditional; it loses because the post contains no support for the plan.