Those put to death by firing squad included three generals.

被行刑队处死的人里有3位将军。

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Hill, he declares, was probably innocent, but came to welcome a dramatic death-by a firing squad in Utah.

他指出，虽然希尔可能是无罪的，但希尔希望犹他州法警给他来一个引起轰动的处决。

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Desertion was also punishable by death by firing squad, but the U.S. Army had not carried out such a sentence since 1864.

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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.

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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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