firing squad
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firing squad
n.
1.
a. A method of execution in which a group of law enforcement officers or soldiers are designated to shoot a person condemned to death.
b. A group of people designated to shoot a person condemned to death.
2. A detachment of soldiers chosen to fire a salute at a military funeral.
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firing squad
n
(Military) a small military detachment formed to implement a death sentence by shooting
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fir′ing squad`
n.
1. a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
2. a military detachment assigned to fire a salute at the burial of a person being honored.
[1900–05]
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Noun | 1. | ![]() armed forces,armed services,military,military machine,war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" squad - a smallest army unit |
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kivégzőosztag
firing squad
n →plotonem d'esecuzioneCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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They were shot with their backs to thefiring squad.
The incident took place inside civil hospital, where gunmen opened fire at anotherfiring squad, injuring four.
If he could have his way, Duterte said he wanted ropes to be used instead of buying bullets for thefiring squad to execute criminals.
While she is open to the restoration of the death penalty in the country, neophyte Senator Imee Marcos strongly rejected proposals to do it either byfiring squad or hanging.
Pacquiao and neophyte Senator Ronald Dela Rosa favoredfiring squad as mode of imposing the death penalty.
A REDCAR grandma on death row in Bali for drug smuggling says she is no longer scared of facing afiring squad and has given up her fight to avoid execution.
FOUR death row inmates in the same prison have requested death byfiring squad instead of lethal injection or electrocution.
An Emirati woman executed by thefiring squad in Abu Dhabi after being convicted of killing an American kindergarten teacher, Ibolya Ryan, in Boutik Mall on Al Reem Island.
Hassan Hanafi Haji, a former journalist accused of belonging to Islamist extremist group al-Shabab and involvement in the killings of five Somali journalists, is tied to a wooden post as he is prepared to be executed byfiring squad, at a police academy in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia, yesterday.
TWO Australians executed for drug smuggling sang Amazing Grace as they faced afiring squad.
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