This is not an article about politics, capital punishment or whether the Fort Hood shooter deserves to be executedin public for his crimes.

Instead, it's focused on the unprecedented parental challenge of handling the near-certain prospect that children will hear of or see footage of the Dec. 3 U.S. execution by firing squad of Nidal Malik Hasan if the Trump administration follows through with plans to livestream the event.

The danger stretches beyond the broadcast itself, because historyshowsgraphic video from the event could be clipped, copied and pushed into children's social feeds even if the original stream is restricted.