| 单词 | firing squad |
| 例句 | I swear if there's ever another war, they better just take me out and stick me in front of a firing squad. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z He imagined standing in front of a firing squad or on a wooden box with a noose around his neck. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “I heard you tell Father one time about a German firing squad.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is the United States of America—we don’t have firing squads,” I explain. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The firing squad, drawn up opposite the door, paid him the honors of a head of state. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The black-market came to an end at the very moment when the Presidential Palace was bombed, because speculators were threatened with martial law and execution by firing squad. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As a senior KGB official, Gordievsky knew well the penalty for sharing Soviet secrets with the enemy: a long sentence in a prison camp or, more likely, execution by firing squad. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He’s got Renault there, pale and tense as if he’s facing a firing squad, and Janza, the animal, a chained animal waiting to spring loose. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He himself, facing a firing squad, would not understand too well the concatenation of the series of subtle but irrevocable accidents that brought him to that point. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He’ll court-martial me and sentence me to death by firing squad. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z At eight years old, Timmy had distributed illegal communist leaflets in tsarist Russia; as a teen, he survived being executed by firing squad by playing dead on the ground for two days. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Even if June's plans fail, even if I'm going to be isolated and friendless when I head out to the firing squad ... Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Very well. Get your cousin out of here, then, girl. And if he comes to, remind him that the next time he poaches off the Capitol’s land, I’ll assemble that firing squad personally.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Like something someone facing a firing squad might say before they’re shot. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z We stood side by side, facing the doorway as if it was about to admit a firing squad into the room. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Before a publicized criminal goes off to face the firing squad, Batalla Hall broadcasts footage of them to all the JumboTrons in the square. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Even as I hear the shouts of soldiers behind us, in the hall leading to the firing squad, I force myself to turn around and keep going. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z All I know is that, when I finally stopped, exhausted and panting, Hassan was smeared in red like he’d been shot by a firing squad. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We each took a step back, then another, until our shoulders met the wall, and we stood together like condemned prisoners before a firing squad. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z And she couldn’t help but think as she saw the first set of staring eyes fix upon her that a firing squad might have been preferable. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z In order that no one would doubt the severity of his aims, he ordered a firing squad organized in the square and had it shoot at a scarecrow. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The firing squad was coming up behind him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z On the evening of July 17, 1918, a month shy of Alexei’s fourteenth birthday, a firing squad instigated by the Bolsheviks burst into the czar’s house and assassinated the whole family. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He survived fourteen attempts on his life, seventy-three ambushes, and a firing squad. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Bailey stood alone at the front of the class, as if he was facing a firing squad. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z That good body of his would be filled with holes by a firing squad in Dresden in sixty- eight days. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “One day we were asked if any of us wished to volunteer for a firing squad,” said Heinrich. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z That same night, while the sound of the firing squad could be heard, Arcadio was named civil and military leader of the town. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Now he’ll face the firing squad in only eight hours, right as the sun starts to set. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z So they had to follow the dangerous route over the outcroppings with no other munitions but what the firing squad had. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He had the same languor and the same clairvoyant look that he would have years later as he faced the firing squad. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Billy had heard that one man in each firing squad was customarily given a rifle loaded with blank cartridge. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But instead of the firing squad, Meyer boxed the boy’s ears. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The soldiers hold them back, "—by firing squad, to be carried out four days from today, on December twenty-seventh at six p.m.. Ocean Standard Time, in an undisclosed location—" Four days. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z If it had been legal, I think he would have called in firing squads. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He and Elena tried to escape the country with $1 billion, but they were captured, given a crude trial, and, on Christmas Day, executed by firing squad. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Finally, we arrive at the halls that lead into the firing squad yard. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z It felt a bit like she was heading toward a firing squad, except worse, because she knew that instead of dying, she was going to have to stay alive through the whole day. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z She was the last person Arcadio thought about a few years later when he faced the firing squad. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z "I think he would have preferred the firing squad." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Then the video cuts to the yard, where the firing squad lines up. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z They feed your image live to the square until your execution time comes, then they cut to the firing squad yard inside Batalla Hall, and then they show you marching out to face the executioners. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z States had largely abandoned execution by electrocution, gas chamber, firing squad, and hanging in favor of lethal injection. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Standing at attention, eyes straight ahead, were one or two thousand men in front of him and behind him the firing squad. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a true account of the death before an American firing squad of Private Eddie D. Slovik, 36896415, the only American soldier to be shot for cowardice since the Civil War. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The firing squad, the hallway, the flat screens. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He had walked away from a firing squad. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I believe, for a first offense, the required number of lashes has been dispensed, sir. Unless your sentence is death, which we would carry out by firing squad.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They came after all, right on schedule, right before Day is to enter the firing squad yard. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The mention of Day standing before a firing squad sends chills down my spine. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Billy closed that one eye, saw in his memory of the future poor old Edgar Derby in front of a firing squad in the ruins of Dresden. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Another example that upset examiners was documentary footage of a man facing a firing squad. Sex, violence and swearing on film: 100 years of the BBFC 2012-07-26T18:59:03Z Up until 1932 and prior to firing squads, convicts sentenced to death were beheaded. 6 countries that still use lethal injection to kill prisoners 2014-05-08T12:30:00Z As the “firing squad” story of last week suggested, the Post is still wired into Trumpworld through Page Six, the gossip column that Murdoch started upon buying the paper. Will a gossipy tabloid be the new paper of record in the Trump administration? 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z One indelible scene features the victims of a firing squad being set on fire. Michel Franco's dystopian drama "New Order" is an electrifying cattle prod to the nether regions 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z “It felt like I had been taken out to the firing squad, and been blindfolded,” he said. What Makes Elon Musk Different 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z “It was the beginning of my awareness of what a circular firing squad the feminist blogosphere could be … it was really intense,” she says. Ten years of Jezebel: the website that changed women's media forever 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z In one case the same man is sentenced to death twice: once by hanging, once by firing squad. Flowers from the muck 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z When The Times of London published Siegfried’s statement that summer, it could have occasioned an appointment with the firing squad. ‘The Sassoons’: A Family Romance at Global Scale 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Risking death by a firing squad, this “paper brigade” rescued thousands of books and documents. A Trove of Yiddish Artifacts Rescued From the Nazis, and Oblivion 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z There was the usual firing squad of photographers, followed by a vast glass-enclosed room with a bar as long as a tennis court, heaped with white hydrangeas and serving Dom Pérignon and Grey Goose. Tell us what happened, Faye Dunaway! At the most elite Oscars party, A-listers had one question. 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Some of the women were imprisoned and executed by firing squads; others were arrested and “reformed” according to Islamic revolutionary principles. Photography: Rare Glimpses of Iran’s Lost Underworld 2014-03-20T14:32:28Z She refused to betray the cause and was sentenced to death by firing squad in November 1817. 7 of the most amazing women you’ve never heard of 2014-01-20T20:00:00Z In October of 2003 Thailand officially changed its method of execution from firing squads to lethal injection. 6 countries that still use lethal injection to kill prisoners 2014-05-08T12:30:00Z Called simply the “Second of May, 1808” and “Third of May, 1808,” the works depict a brutal street fight one day and the even more brutal repercussions, with a firing squad, the next. 2010-02-10T19:52:00Z She was executed in 1917 by a French firing squad, accused of espionage charges that she denied, of effectively having caused the death of 50,000 French soldiers. Sexpionage! Why filmmakers can't resist a honeytrap 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z In comes a sergeant, whom Dax suspects of treating the lower ranks unfairly, and whom he then orders, by way of a bitter lesson, to take charge of a firing squad: Kirk Douglas, a Hundred Years Old 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z In 1922 he suffered death by firing squad in the course of the Irish civil war, telling his American-born wife on the eve of his execution that he still loved England. The top 10 classic spy novels 2013-06-26T10:37:16Z The British discover them nevertheless, executing each man by firing squad — including, sadly, our Rupert. "Outlander" recap: The tragic chivalric romance of "The Battle Joined" 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z In an interview at the Gray d’Albion Beach here on Saturday, Ms. Leigh jokingly likened her Cannes experience to a firing squad. ArtsBeat: Cannes Q. and A.: Julia Leigh on a Modern-Day 'Sleeping Beauty' 2011-05-15T20:39:05Z Four American soldiers bore the coffin, followed by a French honor guard, then American and French officers, and, last, an American firing squad. The Second Man in the Front Row: A Forgotten Story of the First World War 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z “It was like a f---ing firing squad,” an anonymous source told the column about Trump’s combative remarks. Will a gossipy tabloid be the new paper of record in the Trump administration? 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z A conduit for dumping poison is likened to a cannon in a ferocious war photograph or the barrel of a rifle pointed by a firing squad. Getty's Josef Koudelka retrospective is grim yet riveting 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z A kernel — the pivotal four lines from the aria — blends with the tension of a man waiting for a firing squad, listening to the song that once defined his love. ‘Paper Lantern’ and ‘Ecstatic Cahoots,’ by Stuart Dybek Solidly in the double digits as the group lined up like a firing squad to empty the barn of Hershel’s little walker colony. Walking Dead Recap: Pretty Much Dead Already 2011-11-28T14:00:49Z In the film, one docker strums the song Joe Hill on his guitar, while another explains that Hill’s famous line was delivered when he was facing the firing squad after being framed for murder. Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z He dedicated the quintet to the memory of his teenage son, shot by a firing squad in 1917. Classical Playlist: Beethoven, Brahms and More 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Indeed, Cesarani insists that it was the firing squads in Poland and not the gassing of psychiatric patients in Germany that “created the model for mass murder.” Two New Books Look at the Holocaust in Civic and Military Terms 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z “I really meant this and was preparing myself for a kind of martyrdom — possibly even death by firing squad.” Gustav Metzger, ‘Auto-Destructive Art’ Provocateur, Dies at 90 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Joe's name isn't going on it, that's the problem; because he died not by a German bullet, but by one from a firing squad, at dawn. The Village; Perspectives: Hugh Laurie, Copper Bottom – TV review 2013-05-06T05:59:02Z This is a novel that never takes a breath, that works for our attention like a stand-up comic in front of a firing squad. Review | Can anyone figure out what’s happening in Ned Beauman’s new comic novel? 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z In 1944, the artist’s father, a Protestant minister and member of the Dutch Resistance, was executed by a Nazi firing squad for sheltering Jews. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z One hundred years ago this October, the Dutch dancer, courtesan and German-paid secret agent known by her stage name, Mata Hari, was executed by a French firing squad. Review: ‘Mata Hari,’ a Different Kind of Queen of the Night 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Our guide Elena is solemn when she points out the tombs – covered daily in fresh flowers – and describes their final bleak days in Ekaterinburg, where the family were killed by a Bolshevik firing squad. Searching for signs of the Soviets in St Petersburg 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z A spring day made him so happy, he wrote, that even if he had to face a firing squad he would “Smile like a hairdresser / Giving Cameron Diaz a shampoo.” Charles Simic, Pulitzer-Winning Poet and U.S. Laureate, Dies at 84 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z When he gives in, Barnes writes that “he submitted to Pospelov, as a dying man submits to a priest. Or as a traitor, his mind numb with vodka, submits to a firing squad.” Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z It was occasioned by a love-triangle murder and carried out by a mob-led firing squad not far from where the county's criminal courts building stands today. Frontier justice was brutal in Los Angeles, and 'Eternity Street' gets to the heart of the matter 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z So Obiang launched a coup in 1979, had his uncle executed by firing squad a month later and has run the place ever since. 4 African leaders who learned nothing from Nelson Mandela 2013-12-10T13:30:00Z Facing a firing squad of paparazzi, he stared down the cameras one by one, shaking out his famous coif and blinking his eyes in rapid, robotic succession. ?My World? and Welcome to It 2011-02-07T21:43:01Z Crenshaw, who was a couple of paces back, said he felt like he was hit by a truck while a firing squad shot at him. Dan Crenshaw started the week as a punchline and ended it as a star. The real story came before that. 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z At the climax of the play's revelatory scene, Suchet stands hunched, with his back to the audience, in a grotesquely humiliated stance reminiscent of a man before a firing squad. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z The ringleader, Zygmunt, convicted in absentia, and four other men were condemned to death by firing squad. My grandfather's whole family were murdered – but he found a way to forgive the killers 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z After Napoleon’s defeat — “a near-run thing,” as his adversary Wellington admitted — the emperor’s family and his generals all realized they would soon be facing prison sentences or firing squads. Review | Napoleon Bonaparte, gardener? Yes, says a new book, the dictator found solace in the natural world 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z Even the A-listers don’t seem as unreachable because the very act of being a stand-up demands the humbling step of putting yourself in front of the firing squad of us common folk. I was a comedy groupie 2013-03-11T00:30:00Z It opens with “Tosca,” in which a man in front of a firing squad is transported back to an erotic encounter. Books to Watch Out For: June 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z "I make no excuses," he says, facing the camera square-on like it's a firing squad. 'Client 9' tells Spitzer's story, but we've heard it all before 2010-11-19T01:01:00Z While death is by shooting, there is no firing squad, just a bullet in the back of the head. Clive Stafford Smith: Belarus Free Theatre risk life and death 2013-06-10T11:11:56Z Condemned to death by firing squad, Gilles manages to dodge the bullets, pleading mercy as he desperately waves the book in his captors’ faces. ‘Persian Lessons’ Review: Performing for His Life 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z In one symbolic scenario, a skeleton wearing a conquistador’s helmet watches as a firing squad trains its rifles on the outlined shapes of Mexico, Spain and other countries of the Hispanic realm. Review | In the galleries: Some art is sultry, while other pieces are smoky 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Only one of the convicted collaborators was Jewish: Ans van Dijk, who was put to death by firing squad in 1948 for betraying 145 Jews. Scholars Doubt New Theory on Anne Frank’s Betrayal 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Because of the gestural similarity of the outstretched arms, the photograph is sometimes compared to Goya’s painting “The Third of May, 1808,” of a Spanish partisan facing a Bonapartist firing squad. Has War Changed, or Only War Photography? 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z "The civil war was all bombings, death, firing squads..." A life in paintings 2011-03-20T00:08:06Z In one episode, his back to the wall and facing a firing squad, he was asked if he had a last request. Patrick Macnee, Star of ‘The Avengers,’ Dies at 93 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z In 1849, he was arrested for political offenses against the state and put in front of a firing squad before being given a theatrical last-minute reprieve. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z At the end, the audience sees the prince dying in a hail of bullets as the Elector of Brandenburg, a prototype fascist dictator clad in black, supervises his execution by firing squad. Lost in translation: why have we declared war on foreign dramatists? 2010-09-01T11:32:00Z Its members have faced the kind of firing squad that only Washington can bring. The club Julia Pierson is joining: Life after a Washington scandal In 1940, at the age of forty-five, he was shot by a firing squad. Things we lost in a hurricane 2012-11-12T20:46:00Z He had contacted the FBI about threats made against him, including callers who threatened him with a firing squad, prior to the Sunday incident. After ‘pizzagate’ shooting, an industry trained in hospitality thinks about security 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The facing page, otherwise blank, contains the line “—During the Cultural Revolution, a boy saw his mother shot by a firing squad—.” Four New Poetry Collections Confront Despair With Wonder 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z "This roast was a dream of mine," Bieber said, taking the stage after his 10-person firing squad let him have it all night long. Justin Bieber aims for redemption during Comedy Central roast 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z His father, a mason, was arrested in 1964 for aiding a Tuareg rebellion that broke out against the newly independent government of Mali and executed by firing squad. Tinariwen: Sahara to New York City 2011-08-20T23:04:07Z “Superman!” gasps Lois Lane, freshly scooped from beneath the nodding carbines of a South American firing squad. ‘Superman,’ by Larry Tye 2012-07-06T22:10:04Z She said Republican voters have grown tired of the “circular firing squad within the party.” Ronna McDaniel’s staying power as RNC chair put to the test 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z For her part, Ms. McDaniel has said Republican voters have grown tired of the “circular firing squad within the party” and said the RNC is a turnout organization that does not control candidate messaging. Ramaswamy launches petition to fire RNC’s McDaniel 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z The state asked the Supreme Court to toss out a lower court ruling after a 2022 trial that the electric chair and the firing squad are cruel and unusual punishments. South Carolina has lethal injection drug but justices want more info before restarting executions 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z It’s giving frightening new meaning to the old saw about politicians’ forming a circular firing squad. Opinion: Let's count the reasons Democrats have no business helping the House GOP elect a speaker 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z This broken party has given frightening new meaning to the old saw about forming a circular firing squad. Opinion: Has the Republican Party proved to be so anti-government that it cannot govern at all? 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z Without reliable access, five states - Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Utah and South Carolina - have passed laws to allow prisoners to choose to die by firing squad as an alternative. Death row: The secret hunt for lethal drugs used in US executions 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z "We thought 12 was a nice, tidy number for a firing squad," she said. Former Kuwait hostage says she did not expect to survive captivity 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z Lawyers for the state had their own experts at the 2022 trial who argued death by firing squad or the electric chair likely would be instantaneous and the condemned would feel no pain. South Carolina has lethal injection drug but justices want more info before restarting executions 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z “I felt like I was putting myself in front of a firing squad.” Jessica Chastain shopped at Target to get into character as a normal person 'who leads a simple life' for her new movie 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z A firing squad abruptly ended the communist leader’s rule in 1989 when his people rose up against him. America’s retired North Korea intelligence officer offers a parting message on the nuclear threat 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z Since 1900, various states have carried out executions by hanging, electrocution, firing squad, the gas chamber and lethal injection. Alabama nitrogen hypocrisy: America's latest fantasy death-penalty solution 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z "But this is not a firing squad. This is not Stalinism," he said. Zelenskiy says he will propose tougher corruption measures this week 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z Authorities arrested him months later and executed him by firing squad after a military court trial. AP WAS THERE: A 1953 CIA-led coup in Iran topples prime minister, cements shah’s power 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z There, some 2,200 people were shot by Franco’s firing squads against a wall that is still pockmarked with bullet holes. Spanish Vote Threatens Efforts to Recover Franco’s Victims 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z In March, Idaho became the latest state to authorize the use of firing squads to carry out executions in response to increasing difficulty in obtaining lethal injection drugs. Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty in Idaho Murders Case 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z In addition, a handful of states are seeking to reinstate other execution methods — such as firing squads — as an alternative to lethal injections, after pharmaceutical companies barred the use of their drugs. Nearly all of Louisiana’s death row inmates ask governor for clemency on the same day 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z The executions were carried out in a military manner, by firing squads under command. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Indonesia has the death penalty for crimes such as murder, terrorism and drug trafficking, which it carries out by firing squad. Amnesty: Executions worldwide increased by 53% in 2022, rose in Iran, Saudi Arabia 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z While the state Supreme Court has halted executions by firing squad or electrocution, the justices have indicated they will lift the stop if the state can find lethal injection drugs. Executions may return to South Carolina; shield law nears OK 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Seven people have been executed since Thailand switched from using a firing squad to lethal injection in 2003. Death sentence upheld for Thai gold robber who killed 3 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Last month, Idaho’s Republican Gov. Brad Little signed a bill allowing execution by firing squad, making Idaho the latest state to turn to older methods of capital punishment amid a nationwide shortage of lethal-injection drugs. Washington state officially abolishes death penalty 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z BOISE, Idaho — Republican Gov. Brad Little signed a bill allowing execution by firing squad, making Idaho the latest state to turn to older methods of capital punishment amid a nationwide shortage of lethal-injection drugs. Idaho governor signs firing squad execution bill into law 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z Under it, firing squads will be used only if the state cannot obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections. Idaho governor signs firing squad execution bill into law 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z Idaho lawmakers passed a bill this week seeking to add the state to the list of those authorizing firing squads, which currently includes Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and South Carolina. Why executions by firing squad may be coming back in the US 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Some, including a few Supreme Court justices, view firing squads as less cruel than lethal injections despite the violence involved in riddling bodies with bullets. Why are firing squads for U.S. executions being debated? 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z It issued a protocol allowing firing squads for federal executions if necessary, but that method was not used. Idaho poised to allow firing-squad executions in some cases 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z The Idaho Senate approved a state House of Representatives bill Monday allowing the use of a firing squad to execute a prisoner only when lethal injection drugs are not available. Idaho Legislature passes bill allowing firing squads when lethal injection drugs unavailable 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Only Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and South Carolina have laws allowing firing squads if other execution methods are unavailable, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Idaho governor signs firing squad execution bill into law 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z Some, including a few Supreme Court justices, view firing squads as less cruel than lethal injections, despite the violence involved in riddling bodies with bullets. Why executions by firing squad may be coming back in the US 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Here is a look at the status of firing squads in the United States: Why are firing squads for U.S. executions being debated? 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z The Idaho Department of Correction estimates it will cost around $750,000 to build or retrofit a death chamber for firing squad executions. Idaho poised to allow firing-squad executions in some cases 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and South Carolina also allow firing squads if lethal injection is unavailable, with Utah being the last to use a firing squad in a 2010 execution. Idaho Legislature passes bill allowing firing squads when lethal injection drugs unavailable 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Some lawyers for federal inmates who were eventually put to death argued in court that firing squads actually would be quicker and less painful than pentobarbital, which they said causes a sensation akin to drowning. Idaho governor signs firing squad execution bill into law 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z A look at the status of firing squads in the United States: Why executions by firing squad may be coming back in the US 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Utah is the only state to have used firing squads in the last 50 years, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center. Why are firing squads for U.S. executions being debated? 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Agency Director Jeff Tewalt last year told lawmakers there would likely be as many legal challenges to planned firing squad executions as there are to lethal injections. Idaho poised to allow firing-squad executions in some cases 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Federal executions, which also have the option of using a firing squad, have been stayed by an indefinite moratorium imposed by Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2021. Idaho Legislature passes bill allowing firing squads when lethal injection drugs unavailable 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z BOISE, Idaho — Idaho is poised to allow firing squads to execute condemned inmates when the state can’t get lethal-injection drugs, under a bill the Legislature passed Monday with a veto-proof majority. Idaho poised to allow firing-squad executions in some cases 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Utah is the only state to have used firing squads in the past 50 years, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center. Why executions by firing squad may be coming back in the US 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Under Idaho’s bill, firing squads would be used only if executioners can’t obtain the drugs required for lethal injections. Why are firing squads for U.S. executions being debated? 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Indonesia is a major hub for drug trafficking in Southeast Asia and has strict drug laws, with convicted smugglers sometimes executed by firing squad. Indonesia arrests 4 foreigners for alleged drug smuggling 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z The creation or retrofitting of a chamber to use for a firing squad will cost around $750,000, according to the Idaho bill’s statement of purpose. Idaho Legislature passes bill allowing firing squads when lethal injection drugs unavailable 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Idaho previously had a firing squad option on the books but has never used it. Idaho poised to allow firing-squad executions in some cases 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Her comments came in the case of an Alabama inmate who asked to be executed by firing squad. Why executions by firing squad may be coming back in the US 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Her comments were in the case of an Alabama inmate who asked to be executed by firing squad. Why are firing squads for U.S. executions being debated? 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z The country’s last executions were in 2016, when one Indonesian and three foreigners were shot by a firing squad. Indonesia arrests 4 foreigners for alleged drug smuggling 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Corrections experts note that firing squads in particular may be morally and psychologically difficult to perform. Idaho Legislature passes bill allowing firing squads when lethal injection drugs unavailable 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z “The use of the firing squad is, in my opinion, beneath the dignity of the state of Idaho.” Idaho poised to allow firing-squad executions in some cases 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z That has led to the spectacle of inmate attorneys bringing multiple cases in which they argue the merits of firing squads. Why executions by firing squad may be coming back in the US 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z In a 2019 federal case, prosecutors submitted statements from anesthesiologist Joseph Antognini, who said painless deaths by firing squads are not guaranteed. Why are firing squads for U.S. executions being debated? 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z In September, the Justice Department issued a public notice seeking comment about changes to Trump protocols, including one permitting execution methods other than lethal injection, such as firing squads. EXPLAINER: What’s the status of the US death penalty? 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Among the lawmakers who proposed the firing squad alternative was Mr. Harpootlian. Condemning Murdaugh’s ‘Lies,’ Judge Sentences Him to Life in Prison 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z The Idaho Department of Correction estimates that it will cost around $750,000 to build or retrofit a death chamber for firing squad executions. Idaho poised to allow firing-squad executions in some cases 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Rep. Paul Sherrell, who is white, first made the remark Tuesday as a separate lawmaker was introducing legislation to include the firing squad to execute death row inmates. Tennessee GOP lawmaker apologizes over ‘hanging’ comment 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Others note that killings by firing squad are visibly violent and bloody compared with lethal injections, potentially traumatizing victims’ relatives and other witnesses as well as executioners and staffers who clean up afterward. Why are firing squads for U.S. executions being debated? 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Under a newly proposed draft bill, prisoners like Pizzuto could be executed by firing squad. Why Idaho is considering bringing back execution by firing squad 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador announced the order Friday, just two days after a legislative panel introduced a bill that would bring back firing squads as a method of execution. Idaho ordered to execute inmate but state lacks lethal drugs 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Idaho Department of Correction Director Jeff Tewalt last year told lawmakers there would likely be as many legal challenges to planned firing squad executions as there are to lethal injections. Idaho poised to allow firing-squad executions in some cases 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z The state eliminated its never-used firing squad option in 2009, but has been unable to secure the drugs needed for lethal injection executions. Idaho bill would bring back execution by firing squad 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z By contrast, not a single one of the 34 firing squad executions was found to have been botched, according to Sarat, who has called for an end to capital punishment. Why are firing squads for U.S. executions being debated? 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z “I am surprised more states don’t use firing squad,” Denno said. Why Idaho is considering bringing back execution by firing squad 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z “We find the timing of the warrant particularly curious, given that it was sought by Attorney General Labrador while he advocates for a new law that would bring back the firing squad,” Czuba added. Idaho ordered to execute inmate but state lacks lethal drugs 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z At the time, he said he would be reluctant to ask his staffers to participate in a firing squad. Idaho poised to allow firing-squad executions in some cases 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z In the bill sponsored by Idaho Rep. Bruce Skaug, a Republican from Nampa, firing squads would be used when lethal injection isn’t available. Idaho bill would bring back execution by firing squad 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z That has led to the incongruous spectacle of inmate attorneys bringing multiple cases in which they argue the merits of firing squads. Why are firing squads for U.S. executions being debated? 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Idaho has never put a prisoner to death by firing squad, though it has previously allowed the method of execution. Why Idaho is considering bringing back execution by firing squad 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z In their last moments before the firing squad, these martyrs for France lifted their voices in “La Marseillaise.” Review | A little-known French archaeologist, finally in the limelight 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Those challenges could be amplified in firing squad executions, he said. Idaho poised to allow firing-squad executions in some cases 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Skaug acknowledged that death by firing squad can cause severe pain, but he said it was a better option than lethal injection. Idaho bill would bring back execution by firing squad 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z But the idea of using firing squads is making a comeback. Why are firing squads for U.S. executions being debated? 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z With firing squads, she said, states would be unlikely to encounter availability issues or botched executions. Why Idaho is considering bringing back execution by firing squad 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z In lieu of that method, Gov. Henry McMaster in 2021 signed a law giving condemned prisoners the choice between death by a newly created firing squad or the electric chair. S. Carolina bill shielding death penalty drugmakers advances 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Only Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and South Carolina currently have laws allowing firing squads if other execution methods are unavailable, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Idaho poised to allow firing-squad executions in some cases 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z There have been only three firing squad executions in the United States since 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Idaho bill would bring back execution by firing squad 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Idaho lawmakers passed a bill this week seeking to add the state to the list of those authorizing firing squads, currently Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and South Carolina. Why are firing squads for U.S. executions being debated? 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z But experts say the optics of firing squads are fraught, particularly against the backdrop of mass shootings and a national debate about gun violence. Why Idaho is considering bringing back execution by firing squad 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Nobody I spoke to knew exactly how executions are now carried out, though firing squads are also thought to be used. Secretive Saudi executions leave families in the dark 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z The Thursday order means that it could be four more months until justices decide whether a newly organized firing squad or the electric chair are legal methods of execution in the state. Court demands more info in South Carolina death penalty case 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z In this existential battle for American democracy and the country's future, Democrats would be wise to finally learn those lessons and resist the perpetual temptation to convene a circular firing squad. Biden's documents: Democrats, media fall into GOP trap one more time 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z In September, the Justice Department issued a public notice seeking comment about changes to some Trump protocols, including one permitting execution methods other than lethal injection, including firing squads. EXPLAINER: Biden inaction, mixed signals on death penalty 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z “I would push back against the justification for bringing back the firing squad now as expediency in carrying out death sentences,” she said. Why Idaho is considering bringing back execution by firing squad 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Others posted about civil war, firing squads and "traitors". Proud Boys face seditious conspiracy trial for Capitol riot 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Attorneys for the state countered with their own experts who said death by firing squad or the electric chair would be instantaneous and the condemned would feel no pain. Electric chair, firing squad’s legality at S. Carolina court 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z The instinct of Democrats has been to gloat as members of the other party form a circular firing squad. Opinion | What Congress needs is an Uprising of the Serious 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Other concerns with executions included a South Carolina judge’s ruling in September that called unconstitutional the state’s newly created execution firing squad, as well as its use of the electric chair. Report: Executions continued decline but many ‘botched’ 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z It is more frequently botched than any other way of putting people to death, more than hanging, the electric chair, the gas chamber or the firing squad. Lethal injection is a gruesome disaster: After 40 years of cruelty, enough is enough 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Haire said in his resignation letter following the November election that the party had devolved into a “circular firing squad.” Maryland GOP, reeling from disastrous election, picks new leadership 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z A death row inmate who did not want to be electrocuted could choose between the newly created firing squad or lethal injection if it were available. Electric chair, firing squad’s legality at S. Carolina court 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z She has called the court a “firing squad” engaged in political persecution that’s aimed at keeping her from running for a third term as president next year. Argentine Vice President Cristina Kirchner found guilty of corruption 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z She has denied the allegations and called the court a "firing squad." Argentina court hands VP Cristina Kirchner 6-year jail term in graft case 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Ms Fernández says the charges against her are politically motivated and in her last appearance before the court last week, she compared it to a "firing squad". Cristina Fernández: Argentina awaits verdict in VP's trial 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z She has repeatedly denied all charges and in final remarks to the panel of judges last week, she called the tribunal a “firing squad.” Argentina’s Most Powerful Politician Faces a Verdict in Corruption Trial 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z In a letter to Maryland Republican Party State Central Committee members, Haire wrote that dysfunction in the party created a “circular firing squad” that will lead to political ruin. Md. Gov. Larry Hogan leaves behind an anemic state GOP. Why? 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z However, it can use firing squads as well. Kuwait puts to death 7 inmates in rare mass execution 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z I think there's every chance that the circular firing squad will miss him, as it always does. GOP in massive turmoil — and it's delicious: Can Mitch and Kevin survive? 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z And some Democrats started a premature circular firing squad, providing the media with quotes to justify the false narratives. Opinion | Biggest loser of the midterm elections? The media. 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z There's a reason for that: Republicans plant this notion in the press and the sad-sack Democrats play into it by prematurely assembling the circular firing squad whenever a race is close. From Karl Rove to the Big Lie: GOP loves to claim victory when they feel insecure 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z Sending Mr. Cubela and four other convicted plotters to face firing squads could have created powerful martyrs to further rally opponents of his rule. Rolando Cubela, who plotted with CIA to kill Cuba’s Castro, dies at 89 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z Chip Kelly often looks like he’d rather face a firing squad than reporters. Don't tell anyone, but Chip Kelly is enjoying UCLA's run: Four takeaways from Utah win 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z I've seen some circular firing squads in my time observing politics, but never anything like what is going on in the Republican Party right now. GOP in massive turmoil — and it's delicious: Can Mitch and Kevin survive? 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z When asked what the most humane way to execute someone would be, Lain’s answer is the firing squad. ‘New Execution Method Touted as More ‘Humane,’ But Evidence Is Lacking’ 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z South Carolina had planned to kill a prisoner by firing squad until a judge ruled this month that the method was unconstitutional. Supreme Court Says Alabama Can Kill Prisoner With Method He Fears 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z The three entities work together but tend to turn into a triangular firing squad when people start asking why so many patients still die waiting for organs. Organ transplants are up, but the agency in charge is under fire 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z A South Carolina judge ruled Tuesday that the state’s use of the electric chair and firing squads to carry out death penalty executions were unconstitutional. Death by firing squad, electric chair ruled unconstitutional by S.C. judge 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z In an execution by firing squad, the inmate would be strapped to a metal chair, with a physician placing an “aiming point” over the inmate’s heart and his or her head covered with a hood. South Carolina Judge Rules Against Use of Firing Squad and Electric Chair 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z “Death by firing squad is nearly instantaneous,” she says. ‘New Execution Method Touted as More ‘Humane,’ But Evidence Is Lacking’ 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Attorneys for the state countered with their own experts who said death by the yet-to-be-used firing squad or the rarely used electric chair would be instantaneous and the condemned would not feel any pain. Judge says SC electric chair, firing squad unconstitutional 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z Two were executed by hanging, and three by firing squad. Hamas executes five Palestinians, two accused of collaborating with Israel 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Judge Newman determined that both the firing squad and electric chair amounted to torture because the deaths weren’t immediate and could cause lingering pain. Death by firing squad, electric chair ruled unconstitutional by S.C. judge 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z If vital signs were still present after 10 minutes, the firing squad would fire an additional round. South Carolina Judge Rules Against Use of Firing Squad and Electric Chair 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Three of the five were killed by hanging and the other two by firing squad, the Gaza Interior Ministry said in a statement. 5 Palestinians, 2 Accused of Spying for Israel, Are Executed in Gaza, Officials Say 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Prison officials sought help from state lawmakers, who for several years had considered adding the firing squad as an option to approved methods, but debate never advanced. Judge says SC electric chair, firing squad unconstitutional 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z Two of the men, both members of the Palestinian security forces, were killed by firing squad, and the other three were hanged at dawn at a security site in Gaza City. Hamas executes 5 Gazans charged with murder, aiding Israel 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Four were hanged and one was executed by firing squad because he was a policeman, it added. Hamas executes two 'Israel collaborators' in Gaza 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z The dawn executions, by hanging or firing squad, were the first in the Palestinian territories since 2017. Hamas authorities execute five Palestinians in Gaza 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Apprehended within a day, he and his equally despised wife, Elena, were tried by the military and executed by a firing squad. Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z During last month’s trial, a Corrections Department official said he devised the firing squad protocols after consulting a prison official in Utah, location of the only three inmates to die by firing squad since 1977. Judge says SC electric chair, firing squad unconstitutional 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z When he returned to Central America in 1860, he was captured by the British and released to Honduran authorities, who executed him by firing squad. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In a 2021 case, one death row prisoner lost an appeal to request death by firing squad in lieu of lethal injection. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z In the following days, Tresckow killed himself, Stauffenberg died by firing squad, and thousands of alleged conspirators were rounded up, tortured and executed — including a raft of generals. Trump wanted ‘loyal’ generals like Hitler’s — who often tried to kill him 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Three men were killed by firing squad while a fourth was tied up and burned alive in a grass-thatched hut, Ruai said in a statement. U.N. condemns execution of four South Sudan rebels 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Attorneys for the state countered with their own experts who said death by the yet-to-be-used firing squad or the rarely-used-this-century electric chair would be instantaneous and the condemned would not feeling any pain. Judge to decide if firing squad or electric chair is cruel 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Its last executions were in 2016, when one Indonesian and three foreigners were shot by a firing squad. Indonesia arrests 3 foreigners for drug distribution in Bali 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Only three inmates in the U.S., all in Utah, have died by firing squad since 1977 and 19 have been electrocuted this century. Man leaves S Carolina death row as firing squad trial starts 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z The tweet sent out on Friday night said that Azov "militants deserve execution, but death not by firing squad but by hanging, because they're not real soldiers. They deserve a humiliating death". Ukraine War: Zelensky orders civilians to evacuate Donetsk region 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z After the attack the Russian embassy in the UK tweeted that Azov "militants deserve execution, but death not by firing squad but by hanging, because they're not real soldiers. They deserve a humiliating death". Ukraine condemns Russia's 'humiliating death' tweet after prison attack 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z Prison officials asked lawmakers for help and in 2021 they made the state’s electric chair, built in 1912, the default method for executions and let prisoners choose a new firing squad if they wish. Judge to decide if firing squad or electric chair is cruel 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Other states, such as Utah and Oklahoma, authorise firing squad deaths as methods of execution in cases where lethal injections are not available, or if sentenced before a certain date. Will the Parkland gunman get the death penalty? 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z "Why don't we just kill them," or "We need volunteers for the firing squad," were tweets also shared by those who rioted. Donald Trump is finally running scared: Liz Cheney and Jan. 6 committee have him cornered 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Last month, two British men and a Moroccan man were sentenced by a court in Donetsk to be executed by firing squad. Ukraine: US crypto investor reported held by separatists 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z If the appellate court in the separatists’ self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic rejects the appeals, two British men and a Moroccan could face a firing squad. Ukraine: Heavy Russian shelling kills 5 civilians, wounds 18 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z During this week’s trial, a Corrections Department official said he devised the firing squad protocols after consulting a prison official in Utah, location of the only three inmates to die by firing squad since 1977. Judge to decide if firing squad or electric chair is cruel 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Later this year, South Carolina plans to execute convicted murderer Richard Moore by firing squad, which would mark the first time the method would be used anywhere in the US since 2010. Will the Parkland gunman get the death penalty? 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z Another user said volunteers were needed “for the firing squad.” Trump hid plan for Capitol march on day he marked as ‘wild’, panel says 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z “But the circular firing squad, I think, is a self-fulfilling prophecy.” Biden and the Increasingly Anxious Democrats 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Botched executions and an inability to obtain lethal injection drugs are forcing some states to return to methods such as the firing squad and electric chair that were previously deemed too barbaric. Death penalty’s 50-year rise and fall since Supreme Court struck it down 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Lumumba was killed by a firing squad on Jan. 16, 1961 in the southeastern province of Katanga after being ousted as prime minister the previous year, all within months of Congo's independence from Belgium. Congo buries murdered independence hero Lumumba's only remains 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Then in January 1961, with the tacit backing of Belgium, he was shot by a firing squad, along with two allies. Patrice Lumumba: DR Congo buries tooth of independence hero 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z In a second case, the court ruled that a death row inmate in Georgia could invoke the same civil rights law in seeking to be executed by firing squad rather than lethal injection. Police Officers Can’t Be Sued for Miranda Violations, Supreme Court Rules 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z We were invited to watch, and film, the execution of five prisoners, four of them convicted drug traffickers, by firing squad in Bangkok's Bangkwan prison. Thailand cannabis: From a war on drugs to weed curries 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z His government lasted just three months before he was overthrown and assassinated by a firing squad. Belgium hands over tooth to family of Congo independence hero 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Eventually it was decided that he would face a firing squad and on 17 January he was shot, along with two allies. Patrice Lumumba: Why a tooth is all that remains of the Congolese hero 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z Two British men and one Moroccan man were sentenced by a Russian-backed separatist court in Donetsk to be executed by firing squad. Three American fighters reported missing in Ukraine 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z “The court is looking too far down the road,” she wrote, suggesting that Georgia’s potential adoption of the firing squad was speculation. Police Officers Can’t Be Sued for Miranda Violations, Supreme Court Rules 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Atwood’s lawyers also said Arizona could take up executions by firing squad — a method of execution not used in the state. Judge mulls Arizona prisoner’s request to delay execution 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z This has forced some states to explore other execution methods, including South Carolina forging ahead with plans for a firing squad. Governor to give details on canceled execution next week 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Inmate who picked firing squad calls death row choices ‘unconstitutional’ Melissa Lucio gets stay of execution so court can consider new evidence 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z They have served as refuge for guerrilla fighters and as the site of Hussein’s death camps and firing squads. Building the First Long-Distance Hiking Trail in Kurdistan 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Only three executions in the United States have been carried out by firing squad since 1976, according to the Washington-based nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center. How South Carolina execution firing squad works 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Arizona prosecutors also said nitrogen gas remains untested in executions and that Atwood’s attorneys hadn’t established that nitrogen gas or a firing squad would reduce the risk of severe pain. Judge mulls Arizona prisoner’s request to delay execution 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z South Carolina just instituted the firing squad option last year, giving condemned inmates the choice between that and electrocution, prompted by an inability to procure lethal injection drugs. EXPLAINER: How South Carolina execution firing squad works 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z The order comes after the court this week temporarily blocked the state from executing Richard Bernard Moore, whose scheduled April 29 execution would have marked the country’s first firing squad execution since 2010. 2nd SC execution on hold after court halts firing squad plan 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Most recently in South Carolina, officials decided to forge ahead with plans for a firing squad after it struggled to find the necessary drugs. Tennessee gov: No new details yet why he canceled execution 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Smith has argued he should be executed by firing squad — a method South Carolina has been preparing to use in a now-delayed execution, as that state struggles to find execution drugs. Tennessee plans 1st COVID-19-era execution, more scheduled 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, the South Carolina Supreme Court issued a temporary stay blocking the state from carrying out what was set to be its first-ever firing squad execution. Arizona death-row prisoner won’t be executed in gas chamber 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z A May 13 execution date has also been set for another inmate, Brad Sigmon, although a state judge is examining his legal argument that both electrocution and the firing squad are “barbaric” methods of killing. EXPLAINER: How South Carolina execution firing squad works 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z The 2021 law that now requires prisoners to choose between the firing squad and the electric chair was intended to solve that problem. 2nd SC execution on hold after court halts firing squad plan 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z The execution using the state’s preferred method puts Tennessee on a divergent path from South Carolina, which has been preparing for a rare U.S. firing squad execution. Tennessee plans 1st COVID-19-era execution, more scheduled 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z It has been more than a decade since the last firing squad execution in the U.S. Court halts South Carolina plan for firing squad execution 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z He is scheduled to be executed by a firing squad of three members with rifles on April 29. Inmate who picked firing squad calls death row choices ‘unconstitutional’ 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z For several years, lawmakers have mulled adding the firing squad as an option to approved methods, but debate never advanced. EXPLAINER: How South Carolina execution firing squad works 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z The high court put that execution plan on hold, saying Sigmon needed to have a choice between the electric chair and the firing squad. 2nd SC execution on hold after court halts firing squad plan 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Smith has argued he should also be executed by firing squad, reasoning that it is less painful than Tennessee’s two options, but his lawsuit was denied. Tennessee plans 1st COVID-19-era execution, more scheduled 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z A 2021 law intended to solve that problem made the electric chair the default execution method instead of lethal injection, and also codified the firing squad as an alternative option for condemned inmates. Court halts South Carolina plan for firing squad execution 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z The law forces inmates to choose between lethal injection, electric chair or firing squad, but if the drugs aren’t available for an injection, the inmate must pick one of the two other options. Inmate who picked firing squad calls death row choices ‘unconstitutional’ 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z The electric chair, which officials say cannot be removed from the chamber, will be covered in its spot between the glass wall and the firing squad chair. EXPLAINER: How South Carolina execution firing squad works 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z The last person to be executed by firing squad in the United States was Ronnie Lee Gardner, in 2010, who said he had chosen that method because there would be “no mistakes.” South Carolina Prisoner Chooses to Be Executed by Firing Squad 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z If executed as scheduled, he would be the first person put to death in the state since 2011 and the fourth in the country to die by firing squad in nearly half a century. Search Menu Menu The Washington Post ProfileSolid ProfileSolid The Washington Post Placeholder while article actions load Wp ArrowRight GiftOutline Loading... Loading... 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Moore’s execution date was set after corrections officials disclosed last month that they had completed renovations on the state’s death chamber in Columbia to accommodate the firing squad and also developed new execution protocols. Court halts South Carolina plan for firing squad execution 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z “I do not believe or concede that either the firing squad or electrocution is legal or constitutional,” Moore argued in court records. Inmate who picked firing squad calls death row choices ‘unconstitutional’ 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Only three executions in the United States have been carried out by firing squad since 1976, according to the nonprofit. South Carolina inmate picks firing squad over electric chair 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Still, the firing squad is largely viewed as an archaic form of justice, and polling has suggested that many Americans view it as inhumane. South Carolina Prisoner Chooses to Be Executed by Firing Squad 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z South Carolina is one of four states to allow a firing squad, according to the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center. Search Menu Menu The Washington Post ProfileSolid ProfileSolid The Washington Post Placeholder while article actions load Wp ArrowRight GiftOutline Loading... Loading... 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Their lawyers argue that both electrocution and the firing squad are “barbaric” methods of killing. Court halts South Carolina plan for firing squad execution 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z He added: “However, I more strongly oppose death by electrocution. Because the Department says I must choose between firing squad or electrocution or be executed by electrocution I will elect firing squad.” Inmate who picked firing squad calls death row choices ‘unconstitutional’ 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z In the case of a firing squad execution, three volunteer prison workers will train their rifles on the condemned prisoner’s heart. South Carolina inmate picks firing squad over electric chair 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Utah is the only state that has executed a prisoner by firing squad in modern times, most recently in 2010. South Carolina Prisoner Chooses to Be Executed by Firing Squad 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Lawyers for the state, who wanted the case dismissed, argued that neither electrocution nor the firing squad are cruel, corporal or unusual forms of punishment, noting the long history of both methods across the country. Lawsuit over South Carolina execution methods can go forward 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Moore is also separately asking a federal judge to consider whether the firing squad and the electric chair are cruel and unusual. Court halts South Carolina plan for firing squad execution 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z A former candidate for Mississippi governor called for “a firing squad” for “those that want to groom our school aged children and pretend men are women.” Perspective | The QAnon catchphrases that took over the Jackson hearings 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z “The electric chair and the firing squad are antiquated, barbaric methods of execution that virtually all American jurisdictions have left behind,” Moore’s lawyer Lindsey Vann wrote in court papers filed Friday. Inmate asks judges to halt firing squad or electrocution 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z The question of whether executing a prisoner by firing squad is constitutional has become increasingly urgent as states have found it harder to acquire the lethal drugs that had long been used in executions. South Carolina Prisoner Chooses to Be Executed by Firing Squad 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Those executions were later halted by the state Supreme Court because prisons officials had yet to set up a firing squad. Lawsuit over South Carolina execution methods can go forward 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z South Carolina is one of eight states that still use the electric chair and one of four — including Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah — to allow a firing squad, per the Death Penalty Information Center. Court halts South Carolina plan for firing squad execution 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z The new law made the electric chair the state’s primary means of execution while giving prisoners the option of choosing death by firing squad or lethal injection, if those methods are available. S. Carolina schedules 1st execution with firing squad ready 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z The law passed last year makes the electric chair the state’s primary means of execution while giving prisoners the option of choosing death by firing squad or lethal injection, if those methods are available. Inmate asks judges to halt firing squad or electrocution 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z In recent years, as accounts of botched lethal injections in Oklahoma and elsewhere have mounted, more prisoners have argued that if they must be killed, they would prefer to be shot by a firing squad. South Carolina Prisoner Chooses to Be Executed by Firing Squad 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z His attorneys are also asking a federal judge to halt Moore’s execution and declare both the electric chair and firing squad unconstitutional under federal law, among other legal challenges. Lawsuit over South Carolina execution methods can go forward 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z The last execution by firing squad in the U.S. was in 2010. Court halts South Carolina plan for firing squad execution 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z “He has managed to not get into the circular firing squad that is the Democratic Party so often,” Ms. Pearson said. Eyeing reelection, Sen. Mark Kelly drifts away from Biden 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z In Mississippi, a Republican candidate for governor tweeted that "those who want to groom our children and pretend men are women" should be executed by "firing squad." Disney hysteria and litter boxes: Republicans' deeply odd war on LGBTQ people escalates 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z When the Supreme Court turned down one Alabama prisoner’s plea to be killed by firing squad in 2017, Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested that the firing squad might be the most humane method of execution. South Carolina Prisoner Chooses to Be Executed by Firing Squad 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Fearful of losing his men, however, Washington never subjected them to the full rigors of British discipline, which included lashings for disobedience and unflinching use of the firing squad against mutiny, cowardice, and desertion. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Supreme Court has never found electrocution or firing squads to be unconstitutional. 2 SC death row inmates ask court not to schedule executions 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Then he followed up with: “No rope, firing squad and I’ll volunteer for it.” State of our politics: Even a call for a lynching brings weary silence 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Other people think a firing squad is easier on the executioners and I suppose this argument has some psychological merit. Opinion | The sad return of the firing squad 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z A spokeswoman for the prison agency said prisoners who chose the firing squad would be strapped to a chair and a hood would be placed on them. South Carolina Prisoner Chooses to Be Executed by Firing Squad 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z The South Carolina Department of Corrections has officially approved death by firing squad as an option for condemned inmates. South Carolina can now execute inmates by firing squad 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z In the case of a firing squad execution, three volunteer shooters — all Corrections Department employees — will have rifles loaded with live ammunition, with their weapons trained on the inmate’s heart. 2 SC death row inmates ask court not to schedule executions 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z South Carolina is one of eight states to still use the electric chair and one of four to allow a firing squad, according to Washington-based nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center. Firing-squad executions get green light in South Carolina 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z According to the Washington-based nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center "South Carolina is one of eight states to still use the electric chair and one of four to allow a firing squad." Firing-squad executions approved for South Carolina 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z “I believe the firing squad is much more instantaneous, much less painful,” Mr. Harpootlian said. South Carolina Prisoner Chooses to Be Executed by Firing Squad 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z While the new law makes the electric chair the primary means of execution, it gives inmates the option to choose death by firing squad or lethal injection instead. South Carolina can now execute inmates by firing squad 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Prisons officials said at the time they still could not obtain lethal injection drugs and had yet to put together a firing squad, leaving the 109-year-old electric chair as the only option. 2 SC death row inmates ask court not to schedule executions 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z The high court halted the scheduled executions of Brad Sigmon and Freddie Owens, writing that officials needed to put together a firing squad so that inmates could choose between that or the electric chair. Firing-squad executions get green light in South Carolina 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z According to officials, the death chamber now also includes a metal chair, with restraints, in the corner of the room in which inmates will sit if they choose execution by firing squad. Firing-squad executions get the greenlight in South Carolina 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z The head of the Census Bureau was arrested and executed by firing squad, Applebaum wrote. Cut off from food, Ukrainians recall famine under Stalin, which killed 4 million of them 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z While executions by firing squad are rare, they have been requested, unsuccessfully, by condemned prisoners in other states in the past few years. South Carolina can now execute inmates by firing squad 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z The high court put those executions on hold, saying the two prisoners needed to have a choice between the electric chair and the firing squad, as established in the new capital punishment law. 2 SC death row inmates ask court not to schedule executions 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Prison officials had previously said they still couldn't obtain lethal injection drugs and have yet to put together a firing squad, leaving the 109-year-old electric chair as the only option. Firing-squad executions get green light in South Carolina 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z South Carolina is one of eight states to still use the electric chair and one of four to allow a firing squad, according to the Washington-based nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center. Firing-squad executions get the greenlight in South Carolina 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z They also argued a firing squad, which is among the methods authorized under Oklahoma law, would be more humane than the current method. Oklahoma attorneys say execution method is constitutional 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z In 2021, the Supreme Court rejected a Missouri prisoner’s request to be executed by firing squad. South Carolina can now execute inmates by firing squad 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Attorneys for the condemned men have argued in legal filings that death by electrocution or firing squad is cruel and unusual, saying the new law moves the state toward less humane execution methods. 2 SC death row inmates ask court not to schedule executions 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z There, a territorial court had sentenced a convicted murderer to death by a firing squad. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z The high court halted the scheduled executions of Brad Sigmon and Freddie Owens, writing that officials needed to put together a firing squad so that inmates could really choose between that or the electric chair. Firing-squad executions get the greenlight in South Carolina 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Ricardo Mejía, the assistant secretary of public safety, said no bodies have appeared, and bullet holes where the men were standing don’t look like they were made by a firing squad. Mexico: Videotaped ‘massacre’ may have been gun battle 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z According to at least one expert, firing squads afford an alternative that is much less likely to be botched in its execution. South Carolina can now execute inmates by firing squad 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z A death-penalty repeal bill also advanced in Utah in 2016, the year after the state revived the firing squad as a backup method for executions if lethal drugs are unavailable. Utah’s GOP-led death penalty repeal measure falls vote short 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z The judge also determined that Grant and Postelle selected an alternative method of execution, firing squad, too late to be included in a separate lawsuit challenging Oklahoma’s lethal injection method as unconstitutional. Appeals court paves the way for 2 more Oklahoma executions 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Now that a firing squad has been formed, the court will need to issue a new order for any execution to be carried out. Firing-squad executions get the greenlight in South Carolina 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z The policy changes include the authorization of firing squads, fewer restrictions on lethal injection drugs and a reduction in the amount of notice given to prisoners before their executions. Anti-death penalty group to rally in Washington, press Biden to end federal executions 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Utah is the only state to use a firing squad in the last 50 years. South Carolina can now execute inmates by firing squad 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Friot also determined that Donald Grant and Postelle selected an alternative method of execution, firing squad, too late to be included in a separate lawsuit challenging Oklahoma’s lethal injection method as unconstitutional. Federal judge declines to halt upcoming Oklahoma executions 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Two Oklahoma death row inmates facing executions in the coming months offered firing squad as a less problematic alternative to the state's three-drug lethal injection, one of their attorneys told a federal judge on Monday. Oklahoma death row inmates seek firing squad as alternative to lethal injection 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Prisons officials had previously said they still couldn’t obtain lethal injection drugs and have yet to put together a firing squad, leaving the 109-year-old electric chair as the only option. Firing-squad executions get the greenlight in South Carolina 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Gary Gilmore, who was convicted of killing Max Jensen and Ben Bushnell, was executed by a firing squad in Utah in 1977. Anti-death penalty group to rally in Washington, press Biden to end federal executions 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z The department notified state Attorney General Alan Wilson Friday that it is now capable of carrying out firing squad executions, having completed the necessary renovations to the state’s death chamber, according to a news release. South Carolina can now execute inmates by firing squad 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Reuters reported in June, “Election officials and their families are living with threats of hanging, firing squads, torture and bomb blasts.” Opinion | Why Republicans Keep Falling for Trump’s Lies 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z But Coddington’s attorneys were able to prove to the judge that Coddington had indeed selected firing squad as an alternative method. Federal judge grants stay of execution to Oklahoma inmate 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z In evangelical Christianity the figures I would have identified as emerging leaders have been caught up in the circular firing squads of the Trump era. Opinion | Can Politics Save Christianity? 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z South Carolina this year became the fourth state in the U.S. to allow execution by firing squad, joining Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah. US judge in Nevada hears testimony on firing squad execution 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Donald Grant, a former death row inmate in Oklahoma, was executed by lethal injection in January after his request to die by firing squad was rejected. South Carolina can now execute inmates by firing squad 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z So is Sanité Bélair, who at 15 fought in the Haitian Revolution and paid with her life in front of a firing squad. Take advantage of the pandemic book bump with a holiday gift 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z “Hanging, firing squad, electrocution, and the gas chamber all made touch at the exact moment of death infeasible,” the brief from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty said. Supreme Court considers a minister’s role at the time an inmate is put to death 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z On the way to that verdant forest, we got led into a circular firing squad. Opinion | Wokeness Derails the Democrats 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z The emails and calls attacked the county officials as traitors and called for their execution by firing squad or public hanging. After Jan. 6, threats and disinformation take hold across the U.S. This process is often derided as a “circular firing squad” — a blame game where everyone seeks to avoid responsibility — but it’s actually something more: an opportunity to learn. Perspective | Elections never settle debates between progressives and moderates 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z The result left Johnson prone to seizures and prompted him this year to request execution by firing squad because he feared painful seizures from lethal-injection drugs. Missouri executes man who advocates say had intellectual disabilities 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Johnson had asked to be executed by firing squad but his request was denied by the Missouri Supreme Court, and he was instead executed by lethal injection. Ernest Johnson: Missouri executes man for killing three in 1994 robbery 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Johnson previously asked that his execution be carried out by firing squad, but Missouri doesn’t allow that method of execution. Lawmakers, pope ask Missouri governor to halt execution 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Vladimirovich was a cousin of Russia's last Tsar, Nicholas II, who was killed by a revolutionary firing squad with his wife and five children in 1918. Lavish Russian wedding for Tsar's descendant 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Augie Pinedo, District 18 director of the League of United Latin American Citizens, compared Chavez’s killing to one by a “firing squad.” No indictments for 4 Texas officers who shot man in crisis 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z “I am seething at how Democrats continuously revert to the circular firing squad method of governing,” she said. Democrats outside D.C. worry party will blow its chance of enacting historic agenda — a failure with grave political consequences 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z Hundreds of people attended the firing squad execution, which took place despite repeated calls by rights groups and lawyers to retry the suspects. World Digest: Sept. 18, 2021 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z The execution took place by firing squad and was held in public, early in the morning in the rebel-held capital of Sanaa. Yemen’s Houthis execute 9 over senior official’s killing 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z The Houthis said the execution by firing squad was witnessed by "masses", including blood relatives and Houthi leaders in the capital Sanaa, which they control. Yemen's Houthis execute nine men for involvement in Samad death 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z The men were sentenced to execution by firing squad in the town square, but their sentences are likely to be converted to life imprisonment. Cameroon sentences four men to death for shooting attack on school 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Johnson had previously asked that his execution be carried out by firing squad. Missouri Supreme Court declines to halt Johnson execution 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Joining the debate would have violated conventional wisdom that says a political target doesn’t voluntarily stand before a firing squad while also drawing more public attention to his opponents. One of the first rules of politics is to show up. Larry Elder broke it with the recall debate 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z His spokeswoman said Elder wants to debate Newsom and warned in a tweet that a “circular firing squad” among GOP candidates would only benefit the governor. California Republicans head to first debate in Newsom recall 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z His alleged crimes include complicity in executions by firing squad and poisonous gas. German court sets trial for 100-year-old alleged Nazi guard 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z He was tried in a separate proceeding in Tripoli in 2015, making appearances by video link from a cage in Zintan, and was convicted and sentenced to death by firing squad. Qaddafi’s Son Is Alive. And He Wants to Take Libya Back. 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z But Missouri law does not authorize execution by firing squad and the U.S. Missouri Supreme Court declines to halt Johnson execution 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Elder’s excuse was that he wants to debate only Newsom — not participate in “a circular firing squad” in which Republicans wound one another. One of the first rules of politics is to show up. Larry Elder broke it with the recall debate 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z The following year, Bennett, then a state lawmaker, posted a news story on Facebook critical of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and added the comment, “2 words … firing squad.” Oklahoma GOP criticized for anti-Semitic Facebook post 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Elder had previously committed to attending a fundraiser, and a spokeswoman tweeted that he didn’t want to participate in a “Circular firing squad among GOP.” The Newsom recall: What happens between now and election day 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Sierra Leone’s last executions took place in 1998, when 23 soldiers were executed by firing squad at the height of an 11-year civil war. Sierra Leone parliament votes to abolish death penalty 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z In May, the South Carolina legislature authorized the use of a firing squad or electrocution in the event that lethal injection is unavailable. A Pause in Federal Executions, but Uncertainty About What’s Next 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Moreover, the Trump administration made it legal to use firing squads or a gas chamber for executions, a move that has been criticized as unreliable and inhumane. Advocates say DOJ federal execution moratorium ‘not enough’ 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Missouri law does not authorize execution by firing squad. Missouri sets execution date for convicted triple murderer 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z They were sentenced by a military court in Galkayo and shot by a firing squad. Somalia's Puntland region executes 21 al-Shabab fighters 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z She claimed that she alone escaped the Bolshevik firing squad that murdered her father, Czar Nicholas II, and the rest of her family. Humble Waiter or Son of a King? A Royal Mystery Piques Spain. 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z The federal policy review announced by Attorney General Merrick B. Garland will revisit a Trump-era rule that also made additional means of execution, including a firing squad and electrocution, available to the federal government. A Pause in Federal Executions, but Uncertainty About What’s Next 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z He called Reynolds derogatory names for women and said “you need to be put in front of a firing squad.” Man who threatened Iowa governor ordered to have no contact 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z He also hasn’t rescinded Trump-era protocols enabling federal executions to resume and allowing prisons to use firing squads if necessary, something many thought he’d do on day one. Biden’s silence on executions adds to death penalty disarray 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Given the lack of a firing squad, electrocution was the only method of execution available in the state. South Carolina court halts executions until firing squad is available 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z "The department is moving ahead with creating policies and procedures for a firing squad," Chrysti Shain, a spokeswoman for the South Carolina Department of Corrections, said in a statement Wednesday. 2 South Carolina executions halted until firing squad formed 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z The execution dates were ordered after state lawmakers passed legislation retooling the state’s capital punishment statute to force inmates to choose between the electric chair or a firing squad when lethal injection isn’t an option. Anti-death penalty group protests South Carolina executions 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Their deaths were scheduled less than a month after the passage of a new law compelling South Carolina’s condemned to choose between electrocution or a firing squad in the event lethal injection drugs aren’t available. South Carolina inmates want deaths delayed during appeal 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Their deaths were scheduled less than a month after the passage of a new law compelling the condemned to choose between electrocution or a firing squad in the event lethal injection drugs aren’t available. South Carolina inmates to appeals court: Halt electrocutions 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z In response to the court order, the state's prison authorities said it was "moving ahead with creating policies and procedures for a firing squad". South Carolina court halts executions until firing squad is available 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z "We are looking to other states for guidance through this process. We will notify the court when a firing squad becomes an option for executions." 2 South Carolina executions halted until firing squad formed 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z One smuggler of the popular music, which often generates videos with over 1 billion views on YouTube globally, was killed by a firing squad in May. Kim Jong-un kills K-pop smugglers; firing squad, labor camps used to battle ‘vicious cancer’ 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Their executions were scheduled less than a month after the passage of a new law compelling the condemned to choose between electrocution or a firing squad if lethal injection drugs aren’t available. Federal judge won’t halt upcoming South Carolina executions 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z South Carolina last month passed a law forcing death row inmates to choose between the electric chair or a newly formed firing squad. Arizona refurbishes gas chamber in push to resume executions 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z "We are looking to other states for guidance through this process. We will notify the court when a firing squad becomes an option for executions," the South Carolina Department of Corrections said. South Carolina court halts executions until firing squad is available 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z South Carolina is one of eight states to still use the electric chair and four to allow a firing squad, according to the Washington-based nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center. 2 South Carolina executions halted until firing squad formed 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z The executions were scheduled less than a month after the passage of a new law compelling the condemned to choose between electrocution or a firing squad if lethal injection drugs aren’t available. Federal judge asked to halt 2 South Carolina electrocutions 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z South Carolina is one of eight states to still use the electric chair and four to allow a firing squad, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. South Carolina court weighs pausing new death penalty law 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z Lethal injection remains the default method, but the new law compels the condemned to choose between electrocution and a firing squad if drugs aren’t available. 2nd South Carolina inmate seeking to block electrocution 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z South Carolina is one of four states that allow executions by firing squad. South Carolina court halts executions until firing squad is available 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Prison officials have been doing research into how firing squads carry out executions elsewhere, but have said they’re not sure how long it will take to have one in place in South Carolina. South Carolina inmate trying to halt June 18 execution 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z He was first taken to the Albatera camp near Alicante, where, he said, many were put before a firing squad or died of starvation. Josep Almudéver Mateu, last-known survivor of the International Brigades who fought Franco, dies at 101 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z The tour comes as a newly scheduled execution looms under South Carolina’s revamped capital punishment law — which now includes a firing squad option, making the state one of four in the nation to do so. As South Carolina execution looms, firing squad debated 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z South Carolina is one of only nine states to still use the electric chair and the fourth to allow a firing squad. Execution date set for inmate suing SC over firing squad law 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z In 1989, as communism crumbled, he and his wife Elena fled mass protests in the capital but were quickly captured and shot by a hastily assembled firing squad. Iranians queue to bid on car that Shah gave to Romanian dictator 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z The court’s six conservatives did not explain the decision to keep Ernest Johnson from amending his lawsuit in a lower court to ask for execution by firing squad; such silence is not unusual. Supreme Court turns down inmate requesting firing squad, drawing rebuke from liberal justices 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z After the 2019 case was decided, Johnson sought to amend his lawsuit to ask for a firing squad. Supreme Court rejects inmate’s plea for firing squad 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z The law officially retains injection as the primary method but requires prison officials to use the electric chair or firing squad if the state doesn’t have the drugs. As South Carolina execution looms, firing squad debated 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z But when Johnson tried to suggest a firing squad, a method with a long history of use in the U.S., judges on the 8th U.S. Missouri killer seeking firing squad loses high court appeal 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Johnson attempted to plead that the firing squad was “well-established” but the courts would not hear his claim. Supreme Court rejects inmate’s plea for execution by firing squad 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z South Carolina this month passed a law saying death row inmates should choose between a firing squad and the electric chair should the drugs for lethal injection be unavailable. Supreme Court turns down inmate requesting firing squad, drawing rebuke from liberal justices 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z They were accused of being guerrilla sympathisers and executed by firing squad. Guatemala disappeared: Reuniting families with the remains of loved ones 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z The state is one of only nine to still use the electric chair and the fourth to allow a firing squad. Former jailer seeks clemency for one death row inmate 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z The effect of the court’s order Monday is to prevent Johnson from amending his lawsuit to include the possibility of execution by firing squad, which is not authorized under Missouri law. Missouri killer seeking firing squad loses high court appeal 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Missouri prisoner’s plea to be executed by firing squad instead of lethal injection due to a medical condition he said would cause him to experience seizures. Supreme Court rejects inmate’s plea for execution by firing squad 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z A provision in the new bill would also allow death-row inmates to choose execution by firing squad. South Carolina may bring back electric chair, once used to execute a 14-year-old boy later exonerated 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z Lancaster County Sheriff Terry Wagner said that if drugs are a problem, lawmakers should consider other execution methods, such as firing squads. Nebraska death sentences continue despite no execution drugs 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z Although his lawyers filed documents in state court suggesting he could be executed by firing squad, lethal injection is the only capital punishment method Nevada allows. Possible Nevada execution date being pushed to late July 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Biden's IRS proposal raises accountability, privacy issues Death penalty states returning to 'humane' firing squad Franklin Graham: Biden omitting 'God' from prayer proclamation 'speaks volumes' Mexico City exhales as COVID-19 infections fall 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Death by firing squad is currently allowed in Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. South Carolina moves closer to allowing death by firing squad 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z “Why would South Carolina move toward the firing squad when they also do that in North Korea?” After a Decade Without Executions, South Carolina’s Solution: Bring Out the Firing Squad 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z The South Carolina House this week voted to add a firing squad to the state’s execution options and sent the bill to Gov. Henry McMaster, a Republican who said he will sign it. Death penalty states returning to ‘humane’ firing squad 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z The South Carolina House advanced a bill on Wednesday that would allow firing squads to be used as a method of the death penalty. South Carolina set to return to firing squads following passage of GOP bill 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z The state is one of nine that still use the electric chair and will become the fourth to use firing squads. South Carolina to bring back firing squads for executions 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z The state is one of only nine to still use the electric chair and will become only the fourth to allow a firing squad. South Carolina House adds firing squad to execution methods 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z The firing squad measure was proposed by State Senator Richard A. Harpootlian, a Democrat and former prosecutor, who argued that it was more humane than the electric chair. After a Decade Without Executions, South Carolina’s Solution: Bring Out the Firing Squad 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Zane Floyd, who was sentenced to death for killing four people in a 1999 Las Vegas shooting, petitioned the Nevada state court last month to let him die by firing squad. Death penalty states returning to ‘humane’ firing squad 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z The bill, SB 200, which was passed on a 66-43 vote, will force inmates on death row to choose execution by electrocution or firing squad if lethal drugs are not available, according to AP News. South Carolina set to return to firing squads following passage of GOP bill 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Growing more intense, Hunter called Reynolds two derogatory names for women and said "you need to be put in front of a firing squad," the complaint said. Man charged with threatening Iowa governor cites free speech 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z The other three states that allow a firing squad are Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. South Carolina House adds firing squad to execution methods 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Internationally, the use of firing squads is uncommon. After a Decade Without Executions, South Carolina’s Solution: Bring Out the Firing Squad 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z “In addition to being near instant, death by shooting may also be comparatively painless. And historically, the firing squad has yielded significantly fewer botched executions,” she wrote. Death penalty states returning to ‘humane’ firing squad 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Growing more intense, Hunter called Reynolds two derogatory names for women and said “you need to be put in front of a firing squad,” the complaint said. Man charged with threatening Iowa governor cites free speech 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z One just adds the firing squad as another choice, with supporters saying dying from several bullets is more humane than electrocution. Electrocution, shooting may end S Carolina execution impasse 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Many believed they would end up facing a firing squad, but they were sentenced to 30 years in prison. How the Bay of Pigs invasion began - and failed - 60 years on 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z In the United Arab Emirates, a convicted murderer was executed by firing squad in 2014. After a Decade Without Executions, South Carolina’s Solution: Bring Out the Firing Squad 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z An inmate in Georgia also sought to die by firing squad, but an appeals court last month denied his request. Death penalty states returning to ‘humane’ firing squad 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Gov. Henry McMaster said he will sign a bill with or without firing squads. S Carolina lawmakers keep firing squad as option in bill 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z Photographs show Raúl blindfolding a purported traitor moments before a firing squad takes the man’s life — one of many such murders in rebel ranks. Opinion | Raúl Castro retires from office — and escapes accountability 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z A Nepali man convicted of murder was shot by firing squad last May. Middle East states dominate list of top executioners in 2020 - Amnesty 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Nevada once allowed firing squads, but state law now requires the use of lethal injection in sentences of capital punishment. Nevada inmate fighting execution seeks firing-squad option 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Opponents argue that the U.S. abandoned the firing squad decades ago because it was too brutal and backward. Death penalty states returning to ‘humane’ firing squad 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Only three states - Utah, Oklahoma and Mississippi - currently allow a firing squad, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. S Carolina lawmakers keep firing squad as option in bill 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z “Execution by firing squad … causes a faster and less painful death than lethal injection,” the attorneys said in a court filing Friday. Nevada inmate fighting execution seeks firing-squad option 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Brooks declined the ambush after facing the equivalent of a firing squad last week. Editorial Roundup: Idaho 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z The Senate approved a bill allowing South Carolina to restart executions after almost a decade by requiring inmates to choose either the electric chair or a firing squad if lethal injection isn’t available. Open carry, hate crime bills clear deadline in SC Statehouse 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z The South Carolina bill, which passed the House by a 66-43 vote, would require death row inmates to choose between a firing squad or electric chair if lethal injection drugs are not available. Death penalty states returning to ‘humane’ firing squad 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z But it also added a new choice - death by firing squad. S Carolina lawmakers keep firing squad as option in bill 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z Barely 18 months later, with his grandfather killed and his father threatened with a firing squad by a revolutionary court, he was evacuated with his family on a British warship and wound up in France. Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband and closest confidant and advisor, dies at 99 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Rand Eddy, the attorney representing Rodriguez’s family, likened the shooting of the teen to that of a firing squad, accusing police of misleading the public about the shooting, the Oklahoman reported. 5 Oklahoma City officers charged in fatal shooting of 15-year-old boy 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z A Republican and a Democrat, both former prosecutors, proposed adding the firing squad. South Carolina Senate adds firing squad to execution methods 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Once the bill is signed into law, South Carolina will become the fourth state to bring back the firing squad. Death penalty states returning to ‘humane’ firing squad 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z The House has a similar bill on that chamber’s floor that doesn’t include firing squads. S Carolina lawmakers keep firing squad as option in bill 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z “The party definitely has to unite with a forward-looking vision if we are going to attract those voters. A circular firing squad is going to hurt us.” North Carolina tests how Republicans see themselves after Trump 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z I have great respect for Mr. Klein, but can we end the circular firing squad? Opinion | Strategy Tips for Democrats 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z Sen. Greg Hembree, who sponsored the firing squad proposal, tried nearly a dozen death penalty cases as a prosecutor and watched one of the men he condemned to death die by lethal injection. South Carolina Senate adds firing squad to execution methods 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, a death row inmate in Nevada is asking to be executed by firing squad. Death penalty states returning to ‘humane’ firing squad 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Eddie Slovik, 24, became the first U.S. soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion as he was shot by an American firing squad in France. Today in History 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z Later the execution by firing squad of Supreme Court judges also left a stain on his legacy. Rawlings funeral: Ghanaians bid farewell to ex-president 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z A voice mail message to customer support said, “We’re bringing back the firing squad.” Rudy Giuliani Sued by Dominion Voting Systems Over False Election Claims 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z An inmate could choose a firing squad if they prefer. South Carolina Senate adds firing squad to execution methods 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z The search for a humane, reliable and safe method of execution has thrust firing squads back into the spotlight. Death penalty states returning to ‘humane’ firing squad 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z "Get the firing squads ready. Pence goes FIRST." Make no mistake: The terrorists were there to kill Pence, Pelosi, someone 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Worldwide, crimes against the State are often met by firing squads or miserable incarceration. Impeachment, U.S. Capitol attack: Readers’ views 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Kelly found himself on the firing squad, waiting outside conference-room doors to escort the casualties down to the lobby. The Man Who Turned Credit-Card Points Into an Empire 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z The House is considering a similar bill without the firing squad option, but it could also consider the Senate version after a procedural vote by senators finalizes the bill later this week. South Carolina Senate adds firing squad to execution methods 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Proponents say a firing squad offers several advantages, including the use of trained professionals to carry it out, a lower likelihood of a botched execution and a more compassionate way to die. Death penalty states returning to ‘humane’ firing squad 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Screenshots show posts on Parler—known as parleys— calling for Vice President Mike Pence to face a firing squad, and encouraging “Patriots” to return to Washington D.C. on January 19th with weapons. Some Amazon workers want the company to stop providing hosting services for Parler 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z “He will face execution by firing squad,” Mr. Wood said on Twitter about the vice president earlier this month. Parler pulls down some Lin Wood posts after pro-Trump lawyer says Pence should face ‘firing squad’ 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z As evidence, the group posted screenshots of Parler posts calling for Vice President Mike Pence to face a firing squad and encouraging “American Patriots” to return to the capital on January 19th “carrying Our weapons.” Apple and Google face pressure to deplatform Parler over calls to violence 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z It would become just the fourth state to allow a firing squad with Utah, Oklahoma and Mississippi, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. South Carolina Senate adds firing squad to execution methods 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Bungled injections in Texas, Oklahoma and Arizona persuaded Utah to bring back the firing squad in 2015. Death penalty states returning to ‘humane’ firing squad 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z “Get the firing squads ready. Pence goes FIRST.” ‘Nothing can stop what’s coming’: Far-right forums that fomented Capitol riots voice glee in aftermath 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z “Get the firing squads ready. Pence goes FIRST,” Mr. Wood said Thursday. Parler pulls down some Lin Wood posts after pro-Trump lawyer says Pence should face ‘firing squad’ 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z One message sent to the private mobile phone of his wife, Tricia, said: “Your husband deserves to face a firing squad.” Brad Raffensperger: who is the Georgia secretary of state standing up to Trump? 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z “He will face execution by firing squad,” Mr. Wood posted about Mr. Pence. L. Lin Wood, pro-Trump lawyer, says GOP ‘traitors’ should be arrested, executed 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z Although he was put to death after the state abandoned firing squads in 2004, he was able to choose that option because he had been sentenced before the decision. Death penalty states returning to ‘humane’ firing squad 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z In “Five Men,” a poem published just after censorship restrictions were eased, Herbert writes of five men, executed by a government firing squad. Amid the daunting deaths, uncertainty, unrest in 2020, roses bloomed 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z “Yes, some of his parleys that violated our rules were taken down,” said Mr. Matze, including specifically the post about “firing squads,” Mediaite reported. Parler pulls down some Lin Wood posts after pro-Trump lawyer says Pence should face ‘firing squad’ 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z Then he circumnavigated the planet at the equator without motorized assistance, crossing jungle and sea and narrowly escaping Congolese firing squads. The untold story of the boldest polar expedition of modern times 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z In what became its final year, the administration also moved to allow additional available means of execution, such as firing squads or electrocution. Number of Executions in U.S. Falls Despite Push by Trump Administration 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Under the 2015 law, a firing squad can be used only if no lethal injection drugs are available. Death penalty states returning to ‘humane’ firing squad 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z There will be more emphasis from the Joe Biden administration on civil rights and policing changes than on restoring firing squad executions and attacking so-called sanctuary cities. What's the best thing a new attorney general can do? Not be the current guy 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z That will necessitate disbanding the GOP’s circular firing squads now blasting away in Georgia, Arizona and elsewhere. Opinion | John Bolton: Four ways Republicans can move on from the election results 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z In Vermont, a caller left threatening voice mail messages on election officials’ phones on Tuesday, including a call for them to face a firing squad. Here Are the Threats Terrorizing Election Workers 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z In Vermont, state election officials received multiple voice mails Tuesday from an individual who urged violence against the staff — including execution by firing squad, according to the secretary of state’s office. Election officials warn Trump’s escalating attacks on voting are putting their staffs at risk 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Vietnam recently abandoned the firing squad in favor of lethal injection because of the trauma experienced by the shooters. Death penalty states returning to ‘humane’ firing squad 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z The Justice Department published a rule change, set to take effect this month, allowing federal executions by methods other than lethal injection, including firing squads or electrocution, in certain circumstances. Trump administration sets wave of executions for days leading up to Biden inauguration 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z To top it off, the administration, according to a report by ProPublica, is trying to push through rule changes that would allow firing squads and electrocutions to be used for federal executions. Opinion | Trump pushes an unprecedented and unjust wave of executions 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z The Justice Department is giving itself wider latitude in how it can execute federal inmates facing death sentences, including by using electrocution, gas or firing squads in certain circumstances. Justice Dept. rule change could allow federal executions by electrocution or firing squad 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z The Justice Department is changing protocols to allow lethal gas, electrocution and firing squad for capital punishment, as five federal prisoners are expected to be executed before Inauguration Day. New DOJ rules could allow firing squads, electrocution, poisonous gas for executions 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Nevada no longer uses firing squads, but Floyd said lethal injection could cause “unconstitutional pain and suffering.” Death penalty states returning to ‘humane’ firing squad 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z A number of states allow other methods of execution, including electrocution, inhaling nitrogen gas or death by firing squad. New rule could allow gas, firing squads for US executions 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z A regulation proposed by the Trump administration on Wednesday would allow the federal government to execute people by methods besides lethal injection — including by firing squad, according to Death Penalty Action. Trump is on a death row killing spree: Bill Barr now wants to bring back firing squads 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z The rule change is likely to draw criticism from civil liberties and anti-death penalty advocates who view firing squads and other methods as inhumane, though its practical impact remains to be seen. Justice Dept. rule change could allow federal executions by electrocution or firing squad 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z In Utah, prisoners sentenced before May 2004 can choose a firing squad. New DOJ rules could allow firing squads, electrocution, poisonous gas for executions 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z As Ms. Denno sees it, a firing squad is more compassionate because it requires marksmen who are skilled in taking shots resulting in immediate death. Death penalty states returning to ‘humane’ firing squad 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z The state law there also authorizes the use of a firing squad if lethal injection drugs aren’t available. New rule could allow gas, firing squads for US executions 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z The Justice Department has created new regulations allowing for the use of more methods for federal executions, including firing squad and electrocution. New Rule Would Allow U.S. to Use More Methods for Executions 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z In Utah, officials made firing squads their backup method of execution, while Tennessee expanded its use of the electric chair to carry out death sentences. Justice Dept. rule change could allow federal executions by electrocution or firing squad 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z So, the Republican Party in Georgia was already a big mess, with its various players and the president engaged in a circular firing squad armed with rhetorical AR-15s. Trump's bizarre Georgia play: He wants to show Republicans he's still the boss 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z While some may view the firing squad as more humane for the inmate, others have raised questions about whether it causes post-traumatic stress for the shooters. Death penalty states returning to ‘humane’ firing squad 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z For example, the judge wrote, if the government chose to execute plaintiffs by firing squad, and federal law required that members be certified marksmen, the government could not simply ignore the law. U.S. executions may go forward Thursday and Dec. 10, appeals court rules 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z A law signed by the governor of Utah in 2015 states that a firing squad shall be used to execute an inmate if substances for lethal injection are unavailable on the scheduled date. New Rule Would Allow U.S. to Use More Methods for Executions 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z While all states that use the death penalty permit lethal injection, some also allow for other means — such as nitrogen gas, electrocution or firing squad — if lethal injection is unavailable. Justice Dept. rule change could allow federal executions by electrocution or firing squad 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z The orphaned families of supreme court judges who were executed by firing squad remember that era with pain and anguish. Jerry Rawlings: Remembering Ghana's 'man of the people' 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z The debate over firing squads is not going away anytime soon. Death penalty states returning to ‘humane’ firing squad 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z “So, of course I can be quite tough, because for me – one misstep and it’s the firing squad.” Special report: The woman fell from the sky: the pandemic crashes into Russia's space city 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Beyond that angst among the strategist class, elected Democrats began a predictable circular firing squad. Congressional Democrats’ high hopes dashed as GOP clings to Senate majority, scores unexpected gains in the House 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z |
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