Only 2 countries held known public executions last year. The U.S. is preparing for its first in 90 years.

The U.S. is preparing for its first public execution in about 90 years after the Defense Department announced it will execute Nidal Hasan by firing squad on Dec. 3, livestreamed. Hasan, a former Army major convicted for the 2009 killings of 13 people at Fort Hood, will be the first person executed publicly in nearly a century, according to the report. He is paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair after being shot in the back by police responders. The decision has drawn bipartisan criticism. Amnesty International says only a very small number of countries carry out public executions, citing Afghanistan and Iran among the known examples in recent years. Rights groups and lawmakers condemned streaming executions as a spectacle.