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.
Adami Wilson, a Malawi national convicted of drugs smuggling, was executed by firing squad north of Jakarta.
Parliament approved several methods for applying the death penalty, the Post Courier reported, including hanging, lethal injection, firing squad and electrocution.
Anywhere else, the flip-flopping would be enough to have the general and his men in front of a firing squad.
Mikal Gilmore writes about the horrifying shared childhood that culminated with his brother Gary's death before a Utah firing squad.
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.
He met his death apparently with great courage, shaking hands with the firing squad and giving the order to fire himself.
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.
"It appeared to be a firing squad dressed in police uniforms, " Jewel Hall told CNN from her hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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.
It was even more chilling when they were forced to sit beside a wall, as if they were about to face a firing squad.
Last year, nine prisoners on death row were executed by firing squad, with the president vowing to kill all death row inmates within weeks.
Condemned criminals face a firing squad in Indonesia, which has not carried out an execution since 2008, when 10 people were put to death.
Hundreds of them were caught, tried by court-martial, and sentenced to the stockade or, in the case of rape or murder, to death by firing squad.
The sentence, which will see Sandiford shot by a firing squad on the beach, was harsher than the 15 years in jail requested by the prosecution.
Their spectral presence is most frequently sensed around the prison chapel, where 1916 Easter Rising leader Joseph Plunkett married Grace Gifford just hours before his execution by firing squad.
Her decision irked Chavez so much that he went on national television and said that she would have been put before a firing squad in earlier times.
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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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.
Since they were sentenced the bombers made several appeals for leniency, and also filed an unsuccessful appeal to be executed by beheading rather that face a firing squad.
"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.
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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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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