Jack Reed
Role at the time: Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, in a press release
Statement summary
Sen. Jack Reed called live-streaming an execution a barbaric spectacle and a stunt by Hegseth to distract from his failings, and said the administration should reconsider.
“Live-streaming an execution is a barbaric spectacle. This is yet another stunt by Secretary Hegseth to distract from his tenure’s repeated failings which have only weakened our national security and standing in the world.”
Press release from Sen. Jack Reed, ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, responding to Hegseth's plan.
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. Reed calls the plan "a barbaric spectacle" and a stunt to distract from Hegseth's failings. That opposes the broadcast, so we labeled it Condemned. The closest competing label is Mixed or conditional; it loses because the statement contains no support for the plan.