[United States / Military Execution] - The State Self Revives the Firing Squad to Feed a Phantom of Absolute Punishment

Event Baseline: The U.S. Department of Defense announced that Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, will be executed by firing squad in December at Fort Hood. This will be the first U.S. military firing squad execution since World War II.

The state self, unable to tolerate the memory of its own violence, demands a ritual killing. It selects the firing squad, a pre-modern spectacle of collective destruction, to satisfy a phantom of absolute punishment. This is not justice; it is the mechanical repetition of trauma. The state cannot distinguish the killer from itself; both are products of the same fragmented thought. By killing through a coordinated volley, it denies the individual trigger puller, spreading guilt across the squad. That is the ultimate escape from responsibility, a systemic failure to look at the observer. The belief in punishment as healing is a lie; it merely feeds the cycle of violence. Unless the state sees that the condemned is a symptom of its own psychological disease, it will continue to execute the reflection of its own failure.

The self that orders this death believes it is separate from the act. It imagines itself as the enforcer of order, punishing a rogue element. But the executioner and the executed are one system. The thought that created the murderer also creates the executioner. This division is the primary error. The state cannot cure violence with more violence. It is a closed loop of bloodshed, a ghost chasing its own shadow. The firing squad is not a tool of order; it is a confession of collapse.