The facts
FCC Chair Brendan Carr said on October 9, 2025 that he would defer to the Pentagon on whether networks can broadcast a planned December 3 military execution.
No US execution — civilian or military — has ever been broadcast on television.
The last US military execution was the 1961 hanging of Army Private John Bennett at Fort Leavenworth.
In 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft rejected a legal push to televise the execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
The military death row at Fort Leavenworth currently holds a small number of condemned service members, with no execution carried out since 1961.
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