Execution by firing squad
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Execution by firing squad, historically called fusillading, is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war. Some reasons for its use are that firearms are u
World War II killing of Soviet civilians accused of being partisans on the Eastern Front by a German firing squad, September 1941
Execution of two convicted criminals in a Uruguayan prison, 1892. The prison wall reads a quote from Plato: "The most wretched amongst all men is he who cannot endure misfortune".
Execution of Somchai Thammawattana by firing squad in Lopburi province (5 July 1972)
Firing squad of Iranian Government executing Kurd prisoners (27 August 1979)
Capital punishment
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Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence ord
Execution of Louis XVI
Anarchist Auguste Vaillant about to be guillotined in France in 1894
The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer, by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1883). Roman Circus Maximus.
The Death of Socrates (1787)