firing squad

He had requested death by firing squad over the other two state-approved methods of execution: electric chair and lethal injection.

On the 17 January Lumumba was assassinated by firing squad, with the tacit backing of Belgium.

With such a strong leader, the Democratic Party would now have its marching orders instead of being lost and slowly forming a circular firing squad.

A woman from the Philippines who spent almost 15 years on death row in Indonesia and was nearly executed by firing squad is on her way home.

In Syria's case that could mean the gallows, or a firing squad, or indefinite incarceration in some underground cell.