The interior ministry is also investigating an incident in which an American patrol reportedly caught a death squad red-handed on its way to kill a prisoner.
This fear will no doubt be fed by the revelation this week that 22 Shia highway patrolmen, working for the interior ministry, were part of a death squad.
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Mr Hashemi is accused of running a death squad with his bodyguards which is alleged to have carried out a campaign of political assassinations and bombings at the height of Iraq's insurgency.
The aim, according to the U.S. military, was to capture a reputed death squad leader.
Police in Brazil are searching for the killers of the former head of a Sao Paulo death squad who was shot a month after being released from a lengthy jail term.
Ms Kaplan shows that these lists were used by the much-feared Milice, a militia of fascist Frenchmen that became a self-appointed death squad.
Several journalists, human-rights workers and intellectuals have been murdered this year, in some cases apparently by a right-wing death squad linked to dissident military officers opposed to peace.
Mikal Gilmore writes about the horrifying shared childhood that culminated with his brother Gary's death before a Utah firing squad.
One of the latest to die was Jesus Bejarano, a former government peace adviser, shot at Bogota's national university this month, seemingly by a right-wing death-squad.
He was initially charged with selling drugs - an offence which carries a maximum penalty of death by firing squad - but that has now been dropped.
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Collier died a police officer, shot to death in his squad car on the MIT campus.
Sandiford, 56, from Cheltenham, was arrested on drugs charges in May 2012 and sentenced to death by firing squad last week by a panel of judges at the district court in Denpasar, Bali.
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Skipper O'Driscoll joined the Irish camp on Monday, having remained at home after the departure of the larger squad because of the sudden death of a close friend.
The army and police crushed a previous guerrilla outbreak in the 1970s partly by forming an unofficial death-squad called the White Guards.
As many Latin American countries know, drug traffickers are not the only people ready to resort to violence against those who show them up: few people in Guatemala doubt that it was an army-linked death-squad that last year murdered the bishop there who had just issued a report on army atrocities.
General Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander responsible for the Bataan Death March during World War II, was executed by a U.S. Army firing squad outside Manila.
Desertion was also punishable by death by firing squad, but the U.S. Army had not carried out such a sentence since 1864.
In April 2009, judges found him guilty of authorising death-squad killings in two incidents known as La Cantuta and Barrios Altos, and the kidnapping of a journalist and businessman.
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