Within four years the French abandoned the hapless Maximilian to a Mexican firing squad.
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Eddie Slovik, went through the process from confession to court-martial to sentence to execution by firing squad.
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In 1917, World War I's most famous spy, Mata Hari, was executed by firing squad at Vincennes Barracks outside Paris.
The French firing squad had told the prisoners to remove their shirts because the soldiers intended to use the clothing.
Desertion was also punishable by death by firing squad, but the U.S. Army had not carried out such a sentence since 1864.
Saddam had asked for a firing squad, seeing it as a more honorable end, but that is only given in military executions.
General Galtieri's angry former military colleagues wanted him executed by firing squad.
Near the Ukrainian border Kellner was arrested by some Russians and dodged the firing squad only when a Hungarian-born officer set him free.
Condemned criminals face a firing squad in Indonesia, which has not carried out an execution since 2008, when 10 people were put to death.
"Indonesia has very strict drug laws and the maximum penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad but it is very rare that it actually is delivered, " our correspondent said.
The man stood up and imitated a firing squad with his two chimpanzee arms, ticking off a volley of bullets and displaying, as he did so, sharp but not entirely white front teeth.
Just a week ago Jim Bob Moffett, CEO of McMoRan Exploration was facing a firing squad of investors anxious over months of delays in the completion of the landmark ultra-deep Davy Jones well.
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Among them: the 42-carat Emperor Maximilian, named for the Austrian archduke who, legend has it, was wearing the diamond around his neck in a pouch when he faced a Mexican firing squad in 1867.
On November 8th, 15 former army officers were sentenced to death by firing squad for plotting the murder, in 1975, of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the man who won Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan in 1971.
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His ancestor, who hailed from the town of San Miguel de Atlautla just below the snow line on the volcano Popocatepetl, was taken prisoner but was spared execution by a French army firing squad after it saw he had a birthmark over his heart.
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