Firing squad or lethal gas Bible was asking for either death by gas or firing squad, which are not offered in Texas but are available in a few other states.
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Did your commute this morning include a volunteer firing squad?
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Together they face a firing squad of mismatched TV remotes.
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That distinction helped turn #NeverWarren into a circular firing squad.
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He later said he would prefer a firing squad to jail.
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Even the firing squad would be better than midazolam, Arthur said.
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" And then, "Don't bother reporting them just use a firing squad.
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It failed: they were executed by firing squad in April 2015.
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And the Democrats, they love to have this circular firing squad.
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The circular firing squad among establishment-leaning Republicans baffles some strategists.
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Only Utah and Oklahoma allow inmates to choose a firing squad.
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My grandfather was put in front of a Nazi firing squad.
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He put his close friend in front of the firing squad.
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Clinton should face a firing squad to be shot for treason.
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" Richard Brandshaft wrote, "Yet again the proverbial liberal circular firing squad.
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In this crisis moment, Democrats have gone full circular firing squad.
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Stuttering and sweating, I defended myself against a firing squad of questions.
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In other words, we&aposre now created a deep state firing squad.
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Under Alabama law, death by firing squad is not available, Sotomayor noted.
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You're not escaping neighborhoods turned to rubble or death by firing squad.
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The last execution by firing squad took place in Utah in 2010.
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Democrats have lined up in a circular firing squad since Election Day.
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Those adventures often ended badly — sometimes in front of a firing squad.
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He admitted to participating in several executions as part of a firing squad.
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It&aposs all going to be a circular firing squad against each other.
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After each attempted coup against him, the leaders were killed by firing squad.
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It's unlikely that Ledford will get his request for a firing squad granted.
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Utah has killed three men by firing squad, the most recent in 2010.
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The remaining 1 percent were killed by gas chamber, hanging or firing squad.
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"They're going to give the president a fair and impartial firing squad," Sen.
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Part Two begins with Pierre in prison, having been spared the firing squad.
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After the Ceausescus were toppled — and executed by a firing squad on Dec.
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In 2010, Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by a firing squad in Utah.
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"We will execute by firing squad whoever goes against the law," he said.
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It's the trouble with the left, you know, it's a circular firing squad.
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Two of the three men were executed by firing squad earlier this month.
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"If he needs a firing squad, then let him have it," Porter said.
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Three executions by firing squad have taken place in the state since 1976.
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Recently the W.T.O. has facilitated a circular firing squad over climate-change efforts.
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The last thing you want to do is form a circular firing squad.
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Karen VenezkyParis To the Editor: Yet again the proverbial liberal circular firing squad.
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Arthur is not the first death row inmate to opt for the firing squad.
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Three Utah inmates have been executed by firing squad, the most recent in 2010.
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Find a country where they kill people with a firing squad and I'm ready.
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"It was like a f---ing firing squad," one source said of the meeting.
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Pastors talk about the Sunday when the congregation faces them like a firing squad.
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"I don't know what I was supposed to do, bring in the firing squad?"
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"He's been the center of attention, the center of a firing squad," said Sen.
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And there is no doubt that the circular-firing-squad sniping only helps Trump.
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Two of the sentenced men were executed by hanging, a third by firing squad.
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Biden, who had entered the race decrying the "circular firing squad," brought opposition research.
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The murder charges against him carried a maximum punishment of death by firing squad.
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Some were killed by beheading, according to the Guardian, and others by firing squad.
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The prisoner was not blindfolded, but was placed with his back to the firing squad.
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Forty-three of them were beheaded and four were put to death by firing squad.
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Behind the scenes, Republicans have formed a circular firing squad ahead of next Tuesday's election.
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Six of the executions were by hanging and 29 by firing squad, the group said.
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Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah are the only states that still permit execution by firing squad.
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He didn't really mean that Hillary should be mowed down by a firing squad, right?
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Others have switched to alternate methods like the electric chair, firing squad, and nitrogen gas.
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The Supreme Court ruled the firing squad was constitutional nearly 140 years ago, for instance.
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As the debate raged on, the candidates touched off a sort-of circular firing squad.
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Clinton deserved to face a firing squad over the use of a private email server.
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But President Joko Widodo's administration has this year pledged to resume executions by firing squad.
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And how did the belief in shadow-banning spur an all-day congressional firing squad?
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Risking death by a firing squad, this "paper brigade" rescued thousands of books and documents.
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Biden, who had entered the race decrying the "circular firing squad," brought opposition research. Sen.
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The revolutionaries who made up the firing squad were amateurs; some of them were drunk.
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Opinion Inmates on Tennessee's death row favor a firing squad over a torturous, deadly injection.
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As many as 15 people were executed at the same time, usually by firing squad.
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The firing squad, the electric chair, and, most recently, lethal injection all have passed constitutional muster.
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He said he thinks the vast majority of Mississippi residents would support an optional firing squad.
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Take the case of Nie Shubin, a 20-year-old executed by firing squad in 1995.
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Civilians were killed by firing squad, beheaded, stoned, thrown off high buildings or burned, SOHR said.
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Utah: Without the ability to obtain lethal injection drugs, Utah re-adopted the firing squad method.
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Save the piety, the circular firing squad, the shaming on social media for after the election.
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Georgia uses a single drug, pentobarbital, and does not have provisions for death by firing squad.
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Last month, that life was on the verge of ending in front of a firing squad.
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"I don't want to be part of what Barack calls ... a circular firing squad," he said.
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The group's two ringleaders, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, were executed by firing squad in 2015.
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Aureliano Buendía faced the firing squad, or East Egg, where Gatsby gazed toward the green light.
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But by and large, combining investment banks would be what one executive termed "a firing squad".
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But by and large, combining investment banks would be what one executive termed "a firing squad".
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Instead, the ambassador claimed that only Sung Taek was killed by firing squad following a trial.
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Fourteen drug convicts faced the firing squad in 2015, six in January and another eight in April.
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Haza was just eight years old when his father was killed by a Castro regime firing squad.
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"If you ask me, firing squad," he told Reuters, when asked how they should be dealt with.
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"It was like this internal firing squad in the campaign every day," one person told BuzzFeed News.
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Ronnie Lee Gardner was the last man killed by firing squad in the United States, in 2010.
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Firing squad # of executions since 1976: 3 Legal in: Oklahoma, Utah Time until death: Less than a minute Worldwide: Despite it's low ranking in the U.S., hanging is the most popular execution method world-wide, followed by firing squad, beheading, lethal injection and electrocution, according to Al Jazeera.
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The bill, which permits death by hanging, firing squad and lethal injection, must now go to the Senate.
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Hyon was placed on trial before he was brought in front of the firing squad, the source said.
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" Former President Barack Obama has encouraged the current field of Democratic candidates to "avoid a circular firing squad.
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The stage show retracts that free pass, with its Cheka firing squad and cutely starving post-revolutionary peasants.
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In 2015 the Tripoli court found him guilty and sentenced Gadhafi in absentia to death by firing squad.
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In one case the same man is sentenced to death twice: once by hanging, once by firing squad.
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And they executed Mr. Tolbert's cabinet members by firing squad on a beach not far from the Mansion.
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Jeb Bush has a message for Republican leaders worried about a circular firing squad in South Carolina: Chill.
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Cher previously remarked that Snyder should be put before a firing squad for his role in the incident.
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But for those of us who simply want to unseat Trump, this was another Democratic circular firing squad.
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As Barack said, the last thing we need to do is form a circle, a circular firing squad.
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Capital punishment would typically be carried out by hanging, firing squad or lethal injection, according to the bill.
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Another, as Barack Obama recently warned, is that "a circular firing squad" will form, leaving the Party fractured.
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Undated file photo of death row inmate J.W. Ledford Jr., who wishes to be killed by firing squad (left) and a file photo of the Southern Ohio Corrections Facility death chamber (Associated Press)A death row inmate in Atlanta, Georgia has asked the court to execute him by firing squad.
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The militants took them to a remote area and killed them by firing squad, the officials and residents said.
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Jokowi began his presidency by signing off on executions by firing squad of eight drug offenders, despite international outcry.
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They seemed to think that they were, but then Nick faced the firing squad again with Rachel's mom Kathy.
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Six other states allow inmates to choose another way of dying, such as a firing squad, hanging or electrocution.
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In 18 states, authorities have at least one alternative, such as the gas chamber, hanging or a firing squad.
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It bears resemblance to what I imagine a wall would look like after a firing squad had its way.
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We can only re-elect Donald Trump -- if, in fact, we get engaged in this circular firing squad here.
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Biden, who entered the race decrying the "circular firing squad," showed he had been picking through Harris' record, too.
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In 2006, three Christian militants were executed by firing squad in Palu for their role in the communal violence.
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But what is never a great idea is just being a firing squad of words, against anything that moves.
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Sotomayor, in her 18-page dissent, appeared to understand why Arthur would want to be executed by firing squad.
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The New York Post reported: "It was like a f−−−ing firing squad," one source said of the encounter.
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John Kasich, a Republican running for president, ruled out looking for alternative methods, such as the firing squad or hanging.
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She proceeded to unspool similarly merciless fortunes to the rest of my friends brave enough to face her firing squad.
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In a society awash in gun violence, the firing squad seemed to mimic something that the law wished to discourage.
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The attorneys proposed Bible be rolled in his wheelchair in front of a firing squad or be given nitrogen gas.
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Team Trump, Team Reluctant Trump, and Team #NeverTrump are engaged in a circular firing squad that is hurting Team GOP.
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President Barack Obama is right about the dangers of a "circular firing squad" that comes from ideological purity tests. 21.
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Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN)Indonesia executed four convicted drug offenders by firing squad early Friday, the country's deputy attorney general said.
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"If we have our usual circular firing squad discussions that go on ad naseum, then we'll get jammed," Dent said.
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Schaefer confessed to the killing during the couple's trial in 2015, in which they both faced death by firing squad.
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The only thing they really agree on is that the most efficient shape for a firing squad is a circle.
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Blount came through with 211 yards and a score, which he celebrated by posing with everyone's favorite sideline firing squad.
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Gray has said he is willing to die by firing squad, which is not an option for executions in Virginia.
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The date of his planned execution by firing squad has not been set, as the defense decides whether to appeal.
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The cleric was among 47 people executed for terrorism offenses by beheading or firing squad by the kingdom on Saturday.
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In January, Bahrain executed three men by firing squad who were found guilty of a deadly bomb attack on police.
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On Monday, shortly before a firing squad executed him, Hanafi released a statement saying he wanted to die as a martyr.
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Tennessee, for example, reinstated the possibility of the electric chair, Utah allowed the firing squad again, and Oklahoma permitted nitrogen gas.
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I think he just wants to contain the GOP circular firing squad and focus on preserving the Republican majority in Congress.
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When did the political left become an enemy of the political left and the Democratic Party become a circular firing squad?
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In the afterglow of Donald Trump's historic presidential victory, the Democratic firing squad is already out, looking for someone to blame.
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In February, a state senate committee shot down the firing squad, leaving the two other proposed methods still up for debate.
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They'll be asking about the big story—why the narcissist ace with the celebrity profile is dodging the media firing squad.
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They were already decrying Indonesia's plans to execute by firing squad 14 people, most of them foreigners convicted of drug offences.
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The firing squad, which has been used very infrequently as a method of execution, showed itself to be gory and troubling.
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Ceausescu, who would have been 153 on Thursday, was summarily tried and shot by firing squad along his wife on Dec.
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Kim Hyok Chol was rumored to have been executed by a firing squad; Kim Yong Chol, sent to a labor camp.
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The Parliamentary Labour Party, seeing an opportunity with the Tories divided, has decided to gather itself into a circular firing squad.
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And his predecessor, Mike D'Antoni, wasn't spared the firing squad by his self-deprecating charm, delivered with a West Virginian drawl.
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Meanwhile, the lowest rate of failure (albeit out of a small sample size) belonged to that old standby: the firing squad.
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Four years ago in Iowa and New Hampshire, a political circular firing squad erupted during nearly every prime-time commercial break.
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Instead, the delay in results created an information vacuum that quickly turned into a circular firing squad of recriminations on the left.
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Make no mistake about it: in earlier times this desertion on a battlefield would have most likely resulted in a firing squad.
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Kim didn't like the guy's behavior at the Supreme People's Assembly back in June, so Kim had a firing squad execute him.
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According to CNN, the last person to be executed by firing squad in the US was in Utah in July of 2010.
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Robert Foster, R-Hernando, said afterward that the firing squad is a more humane, effective and less costly option than lethal injection.
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"As you see this circular firing squad, part of the problem is they don't have any principles on health care," he added.
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Ledford's lawyers concentrate on Utah, saying the state has executed three people by firing squad since 1976, most recently in July 2010.
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It underscores, again, the circular firing squad that Trump's opponents have become -- leaving the front-runner untouched as they attack each other.
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Last month, he indicated he would cooperate with the ICC examination and even said he would prefer a firing squad to prison.
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A few states have adopted the electric chair, firing squad or gas chamber as an alternative if lethal drugs are not available.
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That's the look of liberals forming a circular firing squad to shoot at top Democrats running for the party's 22019 presidential nomination.
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The government never acted on those findings, and Mr. Ali and Mr. Singh were among those who nearly faced a firing squad.
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" The facing page, otherwise blank, contains the line "—During the Cultural Revolution, a boy saw his mother shot by a firing squad—.
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MANILA (Reuters) - If he gets his way, Filipino senator and boxing champion Manny Pacquiao would have drug criminals executed by firing squad.
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Still, I was nervous about facing the firing squad of Emmys that sat behind him and saying what I had to say.
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Even beyond Bloomberg, Trump allies found themselves delighting in a circular firing squad across the field of Democratic candidates vying for attention.
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"This is the mentality of a circular firing squad," said Jonathan Adler, a professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
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Also in April, a government firing squad executed a former media officer working for al Shabaab for ordering the death of six journalists.
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People on both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue are hoping to avoid the circular firing squad that helped doom their effort to repeal ObamaCare.
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Somalia executed two alleged members of al-Shabaab by firing squad in Mogadishu on Saturday for the murder of a journalist last year.
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"The worst thing we could do right now is conduct ourselves in a circular firing squad based on a generational divide," he said.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Bahrain executed by firing squad on Sunday three Shiite men convicted of killing three police officers in a bombing in 2014.
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She opposed executions by firing squad and the forced-labor camps where Mr. Castro sent gay men and other so-called counter-revolutionaries.
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I was going through a firing squad, team restructure, change in upper management, and a high octane environment mixed with lots of politics.
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He's taken this controversy and plopped it right on the president's desk and now President Trump is facing the firing squad over it.
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A death row inmate in Georgia famously asked for the firing squad last year after a string of botched executions in the United States.
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Ronnie Lee Gardner was the last person to be executed by firing squad in the U.S. when he was shot in Utah in 2010.
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I enjoy Twitter, but I know that it is a circular firing squad and we should not mistake it for the real voting electorate.
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Jamie and Rupert tease us with some classic banter for a second before the latter volunteers to be next to face the firing squad.
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That poem, however, was published in 2003—before Internet commentators became a corrective force or a firing squad, depending on your point of view.
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Anyone in possession of drugs ensnared by the revolution's layers of police and informants faced a lengthy prison sentence, or sometimes a firing squad.
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Mack's boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, 22, confessed to the killing during the couple's trial in 2015, in which they both faced death by firing squad.
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Lawmakers fear the 2020 Democratic presidential primary field is becoming a circular firing squad, with Trump winding up as the beneficiary of internecine fighting.
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In June 2016, a top education official was executed by firing squad after he exercised a "bad attitude" at the country's Supreme People's Assembly.
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If the de facto leader of the Democrats, however, is looking to start mending his party, the Republican circular firing squad is only expanding.
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He was the seventh person to be executed by lethal injection since Thailand introduced the method in 2003 to replace execution by firing squad.
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Under direct order from Kim Jong-un, 0003 individuals were reportedly executed by firing squad while bandmates and family members were forced to watch.
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The czar, Mr. Uchitel said, became a saint for his martyr's death before a Bolshevik firing squad, not for how he lived his life.
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If they don't join together — if the Democrats opt for a circular firing squad — you can kiss the America you grew up in goodbye.
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Arkansas could change its law to allow the use of a firing squad, for instance, which is faster and more reliable than lethal injection.
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The first person executed after the reinstatement was convicted killer Gary Gilmore, who died by firing squad in Utah in 1977 after requesting execution.
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Days after the coup, he recounted, a lieutenant in his regiment, Aníbal Barrera, picked a group of conscripts to be part of a firing squad.
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The firing squad had the most difficulty killing the czar's four daughters, because the bullets ricocheted off all the hidden diamonds sewn into their clothing.
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As barbaric as those sound, some prisoners have said they'd rather be shot by firing squad than suffer the horrors of a botched lethal injection.
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In one of the most shocking scenes of the season, Dewey is executed by a firing squad as he begs them to spare his life.
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Danny Paul Bible was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday after authorities ignored his plea to be killed by firing squad or nitrogen gas.
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"This is the mentality of a circular firing squad," Jonathan Adler, a professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law said at the time.
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Neither firing squad nor nitrogen gas are legal execution methods in Texas and the state legislature isn&apost scheduled to meet again until next year.
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The Chicago couple faced possible execution by firing squad, but Mack was sentenced to 10 years in prison and Schaefer was sentenced to 18 years.
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Seoul (CNN)North Korea has executed its top education official, Kim Yong Jin, by firing squad, a South Korean government official told CNN on Wednesday.
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Attorney General Jim Hood asked lawmakers earlier this year to approve alternate execution methods including the firing squad, electrocution and the use of nitrogen gas.
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In Texas, a man accused of a series of rapes asked for the firing squad before eventually dying of a drug cocktail earlier this year.
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The official, Deputy Attorney General Noor Rachmad, said that the Indonesian convict, two Nigerians and a Senegalese were executed by firing squad shortly after midnight.
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In the interview, Biden also called for civility, saying the Democratic primary — which involves nearly two dozen contenders — shouldn't turn into "a circular firing squad."
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A third man was executed by a firing squad after he shot and killed a man in 2014 who was trying to collect a debt.
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Huong will be the first known person killed under the death penalty since the country ended its policy of death by firing squad in 2014.
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Beheading with a sword is the most common method of execution, but the killings are also occasionally carried out by firing squad, according to Amnesty.
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"We can only re-elect Donald Trump if, in fact, we get engaged in this circular firing squad here," the former vice president had said.
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In 2016, Kim Yong-jin, the deputy premier for education, was killed in front of a firing squad after showing "disrespectful posture" in a meeting.
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That phrasing sounds too reasonable for the spirit of this series, so here's the more outrageous version: Bring back the stocks and the firing squad.
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Lethal injection has emerged as the latest method of execution without obvious cruelty, replacing the electric chair, the gas chamber, the firing squad and the noose.
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And while Georgia certainly has plenty of people qualified to rustle up a posse like some Old West firing squad, the state isn't buying Ledford's story.
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That same year, reports that Kim had his ex-girlfriend killed by firing squad proved false after she also turned up on television alive and well.
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The two Chicago residents faced death by firing squad, but Mack was eventually sentenced to 10 years in prison and Schaefer received an 18-year sentence.
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The shortages are even encouraging some states to consider older, largely obsolete execution methods such as electrocution, the gas chamber, and firing squad as a backup.
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The execution by firing squad of two Australians in 2015, along with six other drug convicts from several other countries, strained relations between Jakarta and Canberra.
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"It's just barbaric when you talk about bringing back the firing squad or hangings and all the rest," said Charles Irvin, the state ACLU's legal director.
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"I think of the late '80s, when (former congressman) Mo Udall said getting Democrats together is like organizing a firing squad in a circle," he said.
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The country's first Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba, was executed by firing squad in 1961, and military dictator Mobutu Sese Seko came to power in a coup.
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Last year, Mississippi authorized a firing squad, electrocution and the gas chamber as other means of execution if lethal injection is not available in the state.
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"As far as I'm concerned, it is treason and the penalty for treason is the firing squad — or maybe it's the electric chair now," he said.
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Clinton deserved to face a firing squad over the F.B.I.'s investigation of her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.
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President Joko Widodo's administration has pledged to resume executions by firing squad at a prison on Nusakambangan Island, despite criticism from rights groups and foreign governments.
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"In reality, however, Biden went on to say: "We can only reelect Donald Trump if in fact we get engaged in this circular firing squad here.
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The riveting episode "Cruel and Unusual" examines nitrogen gas's antecedent, the lethal injection, and makes a case, of sorts, for the integrity of the firing squad.
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The Chosun Ilbo had reported that Kim Hyok-chol was executed by firing squad in March and that Kim Song-hye was in a prison camp.
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The German Gestapo captured him in France and returned him to Barcelona, where he was sentenced to death and killed by a firing squad in 1940.
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By the time Logan walks away from this circular firing squad, all that's clear is that Tom is in serious trouble, and that Roman is safe.
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He even mimicked the sound of a rifle shot as he pantomimed a firing squad executing the sergeant, who faces court-martial as soon as April.
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When he clicked on a square, a brief summary popped up: a public execution by firing squad on charges the victim stole parts of mining equipment.
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The government contends "manner" means the basic method a state uses: lethal injection, in most cases, as opposed to a firing squad or electrocution, for example.
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The third man, Abdullah al-Nashar, 38, a former officer in the presidential guard of the Palestinian Authority leader, Mahmoud Abbas, was killed by firing squad.
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Republicans and conservatives are forming a circular firing squad after the ignominious collapse of the party's healthcare effort — and everyone is opening up with both barrels.
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It's a circular firing squad that stems from the company's fundamental business model of collecting data from users, and using that data to sell targeted ads.
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Red carpets unnerve her: "Having your body in front of the firing squad like that can just feel really vulnerable," she told me in the car.
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He's warned colleagues that the drug-pricing bill could result in a circular firing squad — exposing his Republicans to tough attacks as they run for reelection.
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In August, they said Mr. Kim had found fault with a deputy premier's "disrespectful posture" during a meeting and had him executed by a firing squad.
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In August last year, they said Mr. Kim found fault with a deputy premier's "disrespectful posture" during a meeting and had him executed by firing squad.
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We also speak with a professor who has studied capital punishment and believes that death by firing squad is actually better than death by lethal injection.
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Mr. Padilla was not identified as a member of the firing squad, and has never been summoned to court to testify about this or any other crime.
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Death by firing squad is legal in two states, Oklahoma and Utah, and seems likely soon to be added to the approved methods of execution in Mississippi.
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The reality is that capital punishment in America exists, and the alternative methods to lethal injection—electrocution, hanging, gas chamber, and firing squad are much less utilitarian.
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DETROIT — Joe Biden used to warn his Democratic rivals against forming a "circular firing squad" as they compete for the right to take on President Donald Trump.
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Mr Landry responded by saying that if the drugs were not available, why not use the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, or the firing squad?
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Indonesian authorities are preparing to execute by firing squad at least three foreign prisoners, including citizens of Nigeria and Zimbabwe, but they have not set a timeframe.
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Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah also allow inmates to choose a firing squad for executions, though lethal injection is the primary method in those, according to the center.
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Many shell-shock victims were derided as shirkers; some were even sentenced to death by firing squad after fleeing the field in a state of mental confusion.
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Trump's coattails in Utah are virtually nonexistent, so Romney has plenty of freedom to push back against Trump without having to face a firing squad back home.
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" In a full clip of the moment, Biden says, "We can only reelect Donald Trump if in fact we get engaged in this circular firing squad here.
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I drew myself: the representative of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya's peasant before the firing squad.
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Captured by the Fascists, he was saved from the firing squad when his interrogator miraculously turned out to be a half brother whom he had never known.
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Aside from the United States, the relatively few countries who execute prisoners typically do so by hanging, beheading or firing squad — methods which most Americans find repugnant.
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A circular firing-squad of full-on crazy, Chris Morris's "The Day Shall Come" barges into American counterterrorism tactics with sledgehammer satire and a numbingly repetitive plot.
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In 2016, North Korea's top education official, Kim Yong Jin, was executed by firing squad after he exercised a "bad attitude" at the country's Supreme People's Assembly.
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His repeated, arrogant insistence that he had done nothing wrong despite tons of evidence to the contrary convinced me he deserved immediate firing — if not the firing squad.
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In the conversation, labeled "Frat Chat," they called for hunting "illegals" for sport, sending a firing squad to the border, and partnering with ICE for a "philanthropy" event.
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"We're getting down to the firing-squad part of the campaign," said Larry McCarthy, the strategist making ads for Right to Rise, the super PAC supporting Mr. Bush.
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During an interview with Norman Mailer about his book "The Executioner's Song," Mr. Siegel re-enacted the firing-squad execution of Gary Gilmore, the book's subject — gunshots included.
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The couple faced possible execution by firing squad, but a panel of Indonesian judges found Mack guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced her to 10 years in prison.
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It's unclear what she decides, but the episode does not end with the "Walking Dead" version of a firing squad, so it seems like she accepted the prisoners.
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This method was seen as being a kinder than using the electric chair or a firing squad says Maya Foa, the director of Reprieve, a human-rights charity.
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But cutting budgets is a far cry from firing scientists who dare to speak up or putting them in front of a firing squad as Joseph Stalin did.
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"The left would love nothing more than for a fragmented conservative movement to stand in a circular firing squad so the progressives can win by default," Ryan said.
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His loss was about far more than his election -- it was a warning that any Republican critical of Trump will face a firing squad from Republican primary voters.
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"People really don't like to come and stand in front of a 'firing squad' — a group of people with guns," the volunteer told WMUR, a local television station.
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When I got this opportunity to be the Bachelor, the part I never thought about was having to sit in front of a firing squad of my ex-girlfriends.
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The convicted killer's lawyers proposed he be rolled in his wheelchair in front of a firing squad or be administered nitrogen gas to cut off oxygen to his brain.
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The firing squad only stands to get more intense once midterms get closer, and Trump and his allies have the opportunity to primary disfavored Republican incumbents, like Arizona Sen.
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There is no open dissent against the regime within North Korea, where the reward for engaging in any semblance of political protest is the gulag or the firing squad.
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Tennessee allows the use of the electric chair while Utah has passed a law allowing death by firing squad if the state is unable to obtain the proper drugs.
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"In Utah's most recent execution by firing squad, the inmate was seated in a chair set up between stacked sandbags to prevent the bullets from ricocheting," his lawyers wrote.
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State legislators in Mississippi passed a bill in April authorizing a firing squad, electrocution and the gas chamber as other means of execution if lethal injection was not available.
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Jammeh, who fled Gambia a year ago after losing his latest re-election bid, drew international criticism in 2012 when his government abruptly executed nine prisoners by firing squad.
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The couple faced possible execution by firing squad, but a panel of Indonesian judges who found Mack guilty of premeditated murder instead sentenced her to 10 years in prison.
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One female death row inmate from the Philippines and another from France were spared the firing squad last year after last-minute appeals, but they remain on death row.
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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.
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If anything, it will lead only to the reinstatement of more brutal forms of execution that do not require medical expertise, such as electrocution or death by firing squad.
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Earlier this year, North Korea's top education official Kim Yong Jin was executed by firing squad after he exercised a "bad attitude" at the country's Supreme People's Assembly in June.
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Mississippi: After an inability to acquire lethal injection drugs, state lawmakers have proposed legislation that would add alternative means of execution, including the gas chamber, a firing squad and electrocution.
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Trump has decided to declare war on his own party via Twitter, attacking Paul Ryan and turning the GOP into a circular firing squad just four weeks from Election Day.
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" The evocative published result: "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.
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A subsequent investigation found the deputy premier to be an "anti-party reactionary" guilty of "modern-day factionalism," and he was executed by firing squad in July, the official said.
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Forming a circular political firing squad does the work of Republicans and will no doubt cause irreparable harm to the party, especially given the minor differences between progressives and moderates.
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The last inmate executed by firing squad in the United States was Ronnie Gardner, who was put to death in Utah in 2010, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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After The Times exposed the Bush administration's covert terrorist-finance-tracking program in 533, he suggested the paper's sources ought to be imprisoned and maybe even face a firing squad.
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Now people close to the president and to his legal effort are engaged in a circular firing squad, anonymously blaming one another for the decisions of the last few days.
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Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife were killed by firing squad and buried in secret in 1989, before being exhumed in 2010 for DNA tests to confirm their identities.
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He enthusiastically defended the character of an adviser, Al Baldasaro, after he repeatedly said Clinton "should be shot by a firing squad," even after his campaign distanced itself from the remarks.
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Meanwhile, documents dating back to the revolution's heady early days documented thousands of firing squad executions of political opponents and people deemed as enemies of the state, according to Cuba Archive.
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Utah is the only American state that has executed someone by firing squad since the resumption of the death penalty, said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.
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I said it in January, it&aposs the year of the boomerang and this is now becoming a circular firing squad among some of the top levels of the deep state.
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Some called for the girl's mother to be charged and for the men to be publicly hanged, castrated, thrown into a pit to "suffer," or to be shot by firing squad.
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" But he added, "That's like asking me if I didn't go fishing Saturday, how many fish will I have caught," and blasted the inquiry as a "fair and impartial firing squad.
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After the couple were captured, General Stanculescu organized their trial by a military court and recruited the firing squad (before the verdict, by some accounts) that executed them on Christmas Day.
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He mentioned a monument in central England called "Shot at Dawn," dedicated to British and Commonwealth soldiers who were executed by a firing squad after being convicted of cowardice or desertion.
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Lawyers for Ledford said he wanted to be executed by firing squad because a drug he takes for nerve pain would lead to an "excruciating death" under Georgia's lethal injection protocol.
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The wedge-drivers' real agenda is a fundamental realignment that transforms support for Israel into a preserve of the political right — and turns the Democratic Party into a circular firing squad.
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"The government got the case it most wanted — the one in which the defendants, each in an effort to save himself, formed something of a circular firing squad," Justice Kagan wrote.
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While campaigning last year, Mr. Trump repeatedly denounced Sergeant Bergdahl as a "dirty rotten traitor," and even mimicked the sound of a rifle as he pantomimed a firing squad executing him.
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Brutality: Negan's decision to wipe out Rick and the Hilltop with a mass firing squad was probably one of the more vicious moves he's plotted in his two seasons on the show.
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Indonesia executes convicted drug traffickers by firing squad and faced international criticism in 2015 when it executed several foreign nationals including two Australians who were leaders of the Bali Nine trafficking ring.
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But if Britain does vote Remain, the prime minister will be able to use that letter to light his firing-squad cigar, as his party—metaphorically—takes him out and shoots him.
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From now on, these debates had better highlight the differences and the stakes with Trump, not become a circular firing squad that nominates the candidate least likely to win a general election.
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One of the girls who had thrown her bomb into the well was so distraught that she ran into the hail of bullets in the firing squad, killing herself, Ms. Mohammed said.
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Her dilemma encapsulates the Darwinian dynamics of the Democratic field: Four top-tier candidates drawn into an ever-tightening circular firing squad which, by the end, may grievously wound its sole survivor.
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The message to avoid the "circular firing squad" has been a consistent one since he launched his campaign and was delivered as recently as in Friday's debate and Saturday on the stump.
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A convicted murderer in Georgia is reportedly asking to be executed by a firing squad due to a condition of his veins his lawyers are arguing makes lethal injection an inadequate option.
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The execution, by firing squad, took place in July and Kim Yong Chol was re-educated at a rural farm for a month until mid-August, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said.
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Duterte said he preferred death by hanging to a firing squad because he did not want to waste bullets, and because he believed snapping a spine with a noose was more humane.
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The participant said that a New York Post account, which had a source describing it as Trump giving the assembled members of the media a "dressing down" like a "firing squad," was overstated.
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Oklahoma and Utah are the only states that still permit prisoners to be executed by firing squad, though the idea has become much more popular in state legislatures during the past two years.
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The Oscars might be entertainment and escapism, but they're also our most mainstream representation of popular culture, which is first in line in the president's firing squad for arts funding and free speech.
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Trump has been critical of the tech industry, and with his similarly closed-door media meeting described by one source as a "fucking firing squad," many expect this summit to about as civil.
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Emperor Maximilian of Mexico built the "cursed" Castle Miramare (pictured) there, complete with a throne room, and ordered its garden pavilions to be filled with nightingales days before he faced the firing squad.
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Last year, Indonesia executed 13 convicted drug traffickers by firing squad, including 12 foreigners, saying it was facing a "drugs crisis," despite widespread condemnation abroad that the trials did not meet international standards.
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The legislative logjam has left Trump without a signature legislative achievement six months into his first year in office, setting off a circular firing squad on the right over who is to blame.
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"There must be some deeper meaning to this," Vidkun Quisling, the deposed Norwegian "minister-president," wrote to his brother from prison, as he waited to face a firing squad in October of 1945.
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Nicholas II became a sainted martyr because of the way he and his family died — in a hail of bullets fired by a Bolshevik firing squad — not because of the way he lived.
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"There is an alternative method of execution that is feasible and readily implemented which will significantly reduce or eliminate the substantial risk of severe pain to Mr. Nance," the lawsuit says: Firing squad.
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Republicans on Tuesday cleared a crucial hurdle to begin the Senate healthcare debate, but now face the danger of a circular firing squad if they are unable to unify around a single proposal.
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"I was raped 43,200 times" But he drew international criticism last year when he rejected appeals for clemency and green-lighted the execution of 13 drug traffickers, many of them foreigners, by firing squad.
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They argued that Democrats had set up a moralistic circular firing squad instead of aiming their sights at Republicans accused of more egregious sexual misconduct, from President Trump to Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.
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In his maiden speech to the Senate, boxing icon Manny Pacquiao supported Duterte's drug war and proposal to restore the death penalty for drug crimes, and advocated execution by hanging or by firing squad.
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Since Utah chooses to have a death penalty, "we have to have a means of carrying it out," said State Representative Paul Ray as he argued last year for authorization of the firing squad.
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The stance, which has been harshly condemned by Democrats, has raised the likelihood that whomever Obama does nominate for the position would be headed toward a political firing squad without any chance of confirmation.
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No great surprise: it was obligated to stand in front of a firing squad of very rich goons and announced what was already apparent—its share price had bled out more than 20-percent.
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As rain poured on Indonesia's Nusakambangan Island overnight on Friday, a firing squad shot four convicted drug traffickers, in another round of executions as the southeast Asian country continues its controversial anti-drug crusade.
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"The sooner we can coalesce around a candidate, the sooner we eliminate the traditional circular firing squad in the Democratic Party, where we just pop away," Kerry told voters in Muscatine, Iowa, on Saturday.
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" But the phrase was selectively cut from the original footage, in which Biden actually says, "We can only re-elect Donald Trump if in fact we get engaged in this circular firing squad here.
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Arthur said he wanted to be executed by firing squad, not lethal injection, after a spate of botched executions using the drug midazolam left some inmates gasping for air and writhing on the gurney.
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He was executed by a firing squad in 1996, 62 days after he was convicted of raping and killing a woman in a public toilet at a textile factory in Hohhot, the Inner Mongolian capital.
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Hyon, a singer in Kim Jong Un's personally selected, all-female Moranbong Band and who was rumored to be his girlfriend, was executed by firing squad in 2013, according to a report in Chosun Ilbo.
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They rode the roller coaster of the Revolution, and all have friends or relatives who were shot by a firing squad, or spent years in Castro's hellish prisons, or wasted their lives in bitter exile.
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The decree has triggered some of the biggest nationwide demonstrations since Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown in an uprising that ended with his death and his wife by firing squad on Christmas Day 1989.
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The southeast Asian nation executes convicted drug traffickers by firing squad and faced international criticism in 2015 when it executed several foreign nationals, including two Australians who were leaders of the Bali Nine trafficking ring.
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Mr. Kalakani, known as the Bandit King, was deposed after nine months and killed by a firing squad, and some say he was treated unfairly by a despotic dynasty of ethnic Pashtuns who retained power.
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"There must be some deeper meaning to this," Vidkun Quisling, the deposed Norwegian "minister-president," above left, wrote to his brother from prison, as he waited to face a firing squad in October of 1945.
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In 1830, the Duke of Aumale, one of the eight children of the king, Louis Philippe d'Orléans, inherited the estate at 8, after its rightful heir was shot by a firing squad on Napoleon's orders.
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In one pungent sequence, Clark gets that famously awful haircut, then drifts past a firing squad of gawkers, like Carrie at the prom, as her face quivers with recognition that she's become a dirty joke.
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Mr. Burger recalled during a radio interview in Prague that another prisoner had wanted to drag out the counterfeiting of dollars but that their captors told them to proceed quickly or face a firing squad.
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The church's attitude towards the Soviet era will soon be in the spotlight as Russia commemorates the centenary of the execution of its last tsar and his family by a Bolshevik firing squad in July 1918.
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In 2015, Trump tweeted that Bergdahl "should face the death penalty for desertion," and later during the 2016 election said he should be executed via firing squad, or thrown out of a plane without a parachute.
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After the collapse of communism in Romania, in December 1989, when Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu were charged with genocide and shot by a firing squad, the borders of the country opened and the market became free.
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Last year, Mr. Joko, claiming Indonesia was facing a "drugs crisis," removed an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment by executing 13 convicted drug traffickers by firing squad, all but one of them foreigners, prompting international condemnation.
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Sondland's testimony is contributing to a circular firing squad of sorts as White House and administration officials seek cover from potentially damaging allegations — some of it coming from their colleagues or even the White House itself.
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"We carried out some rehabilitation of the location like painting and repairs because there will probably be more people who will be executed," he said, adding that the firing squad had been training and receiving counseling.
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With liberals readily admitting "mea culpa" to accusations or demanding resignations of other liberals, and conservatives exploiting liberals' sensitivity and political correctness, I fear that this important moment is turning into a liberal circular firing squad.
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In 503, three Indonesian men were executed by firing squad for carrying out the Bali bombings, after a 2003 trial at which "the star witness Ali Imron never connected Hambali to these crimes," Major Valentine said.
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We can only re-elect Donald Trump" but cuts off the rest of the sentence which says "we can only re-elect Donald Trump if in fact we get engaged in this circular firing squad here.
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In 2013, an uncle of Kim Jong-un, who was the main financial conduit between China and the North, was executed by a firing squad that used antiaircraft guns, according to South Korea's National Intelligence Service.
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North Korea's top education official Kim Yong Jin was executed by firing squad in 2016 after he exercised a "bad attitude" at the country's Supreme People's Assembly, according to a South Korean government official at the time.
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The men were killed by a firing squad Sunday morning in the presence of a judge, physician and a Muslim cleric, State news agency BNA reported, quoting the head of the Terrorist Crimes Prosecution, Ahmed El-Hamady.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday told the International Criminal Court (ICC) to go ahead and investigate him for crimes against humanity, and said he would prefer to face a firing squad than be jailed.
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The man then grips a wooden chair with one hand, the whites of his knuckles showing, "just as [rebellion leader and trade unionist] James Connolly would have done" as he was executed by firing squad, he notes.
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Trump has seemed largely unconcerned about celebrating an authoritarian leader suspected of ordering the public assassination of his half brother with a nerve agent, executing his uncle by firing squad and killing U.S. college student Otto Warmbier.
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Robert Blecker, a death penalty advocate who teaches at New York Law School, told me Thursday that America shouldn't be using drugs at all and should stick to the tried and true method of the firing squad.
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The Georgia attorney general's office replied Friday there was no proof a firing squad would be less painful and contended there was "no substantial risk" he would suffer severe pain in a Georgia execution by lethal injection.
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It's perhaps inevitable that some overzealous supporters will periodically go too far, but Trump need not incite them, and he certainly shouldn't joke about harming protesters or tolerate advisers who propose a firing squad for his rival.
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Ronnie Lee Gardner was the most recent person to be executed by firing squad in the United States, by a group of five Utah marksmen in 2010, but Mississippi and Oklahoma also allow the use of firing squads.
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Reports surfaced at the start of the week that Trump's labor pick, fast food CEO Andy Puzder, had been voicing second thoughts about going before the firing squad -- although Puzder later said he was ready for his hearing.
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Facebook Says This Post About A Firing Squad For A Philippine Senator Doesn't Violate Its Rules Davey Alba, who just wrote a long piece on Facebook and the Philippines, finds a post that says the execution of Sen.
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Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, the alleged ringleaders, were executed by firing squad in April 2015 despite pleas for mercy from their families, who said the two men had been "fully rehabilitated" after almost a decade in prison.
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But first, here's what the Chosun Ilbo reported: After the February summit in Vietnam where Trump and Kim failed to reach a nuclear deal, the regime in March killed five diplomats by firing squad at a Pyongyang airport.
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The thousand-plus pages on the life, crimes, imprisonment, and execution by firing squad of Gary Gilmore—the first man to be put to death after a decade-long moratorium of the death penalty—read fast and lean.
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Kim Hyok-chol, the envoy, was executed by firing squad in March at the Mirim airfield in a suburb of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, Chosun Ilbo, South Korea's largest daily, reported on Friday, citing an anonymous source.
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I would rather face the firing squad than be strapped down and injected into eternity, and I would choose a strong dose of pain and shame over years under the thumb of guards and inmates and the state.
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In early 1939, the writer Rafael Sánchez Mazas, a founding member of Spain's Fascist party, the Falange, faced a Republican firing squad alongside a number of other Nationalist prisoners in a village a hundred kilometres north of Barcelona.
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For a quarter of a century Ceausescu held Romania in a vice-like grip, before a bloody 0003 revolt in which he and his wife were tried and shot dead by a hastily assembled firing squad on Dec.
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Washington (CNN)Former President Barack Obama said on Saturday he worries about the far-left, progressive wing of the Democratic party being unwilling to compromise and creating a "circular firing squad" against allies over policy and issue differences.
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Bible&aposs guilt was not disputed, but his lawyers had proposed he be rolled in his wheelchair in front of a firing squad or be administered nitrogen gas to cut off oxygen to his brain until he stopped breathing.
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Having survived the Japanese occupation, the Korean War, and martial law, not to mention arrest, torture, and a narrow escape from a firing squad, Yun developed a way of painting in which assertion and self-cancellation have become inextricable.
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Former President Barack Obama touched on growing divisions within his own party, warning against pushes for ideological purity that can result in a "circular firing squad" in a town hall organized by the Obama Foundation in Berlin on Saturday.
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In the century since her execution by a French firing squad for spying for the Germans, Mata Hari has been depicted as a self-interested courtesan, a cultural appropriator, a proto-feminist or an innocent victim of wartime passions.
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Kavanaugh wrote that "the firing squad is an alternative method of execution that generally causes an immediate and certain death, with close to zero risk of a botched execution," citing comments from Justice Sonia Sotomayor in a separate case.
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Dodin ended his production with the cast members lined up as if before a firing squad; Chekhov was right about what would happen to Ranevskaya, but we know that the Revolution would claim the Lopakhins of the world, too.
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South Korean news media offered differing conjectures, including whether Kim Hyok-chol, the North's special nuclear envoy to the United States, had been executed by firing squad in March, as the Chosun Ilbo reported, or was still under interrogation.
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His early work tended toward fairly standard landscapes, cityscapes and portraits, some of which were exhibited, but it also included the arresting "Execution," a pencil drawing of three men about to be shot by a three-man firing squad.
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BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Deep in the Colombian jungle, child fighter Yeimi Diaz feared for her life as members of Latin America's oldest guerrilla group held a meeting to decide whether to order a firing squad to shoot her.
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And he did so from the first page: The moment when Colonel Aureliano Buendía stands before the firing squad ends in a flashback, to when he first touched ice as a child and Macondo was only a small village.
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He said he would forgo lethal injections or a firing squad in favor of hanging, in order to save on bullets, and because he believed snapping the neck at the spinal cord was a more humane way to die.
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The resulting death-drug shortage is leading some states to revive older execution methods; in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia, legislators have proposed the re-introduction of the electric chair, and in Utah, the state government has brought back the firing squad.
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Nineteen years later, John Albert Taylor wanted to be executed by the firing squad "to make a statement that Utah was sanctioning murder" and because he did not want to "flop around like a dying fish" during a lethal injection.
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But instead of lethal injection, Bible&aposs lawyers have proposed the 66-year-old be rolled in his wheelchair in front of a firing squad or be administered nitrogen gas to cut off oxygen to his brain until he stops breathing.
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After surviving the Japanese occupation, the Korean War, and martial law, not to mention arrest, torture, and a narrow escape from a firing squad, Yun Hyong-keun developed a way of painting in which assertion and self-cancellation have become inextricable.
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While Sarah Huckabee Sanders stole the press secretary limelight—demonstrating baseline competence at deflecting for the president—Spicer was caught hiding from press among some bushes in the dark, only to be dragged out today in front of a firing squad.
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If it's like a similar post-election gathering of media organizations at Trump Tower (described by one attendee as a "fucking firing squad"), however, Musk and company will probably be asked to bow before the American Empire's new god-king.
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His measured passes to Ronaldo and Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema distinguished the final, but he wasn't called upon for the test of nerves in the shootout, the kick at 12 paces that has all the subtly of a firing squad.
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Advocates for the prisoners who were executed on Friday and those still facing the firing squad have also said that the prisoners either did not get fair trials, were not provided with adequate legal representation or were tortured into confessing.
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"Firing Squad" is about what you're willing to kill for, what you're willing to die for, and the ramifications of both of those things, but it's also about eliminating the old generation, finally getting these baby boomers the fuck out.
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Trump has appeared largely unconcerned about the implications of feting an authoritarian leader suspected of ordering the public assassination of his half-brother with a nerve agent, executing his uncle by firing squad and killing U.S. college student Otto Warmbier.
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" Obama has warned about this "idea of purity" before, cautioning an audience in April about "creating what's called a 'circular firing squad' where you start shooting at your allies because one of them is straying from purity on the issues.
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I watched a measured and reserved Christine Blasey Ford face a firing squad of male Republican senators as the man she accused of sexually assaulting her wielded a type of raw, emotional freedom that women have rarely been allowed to display.
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A guide walks visitors through the villa where the head of state, Nicolae Ceausescu, and his wife, Elena, lived in relative luxury from 953 until their execution by firing squad in 1989, after decades of social, political and economic repression.
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Another school, for military cadets, bore the name of Nguyen Van Troi, a young Saigonese who in May 1963 attempted to assassinate the American defense secretary, Robert McNamara, during his visit to South Vietnam, and who was executed by firing squad.
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What is already clear is that, as Mr. Trump's aides and family members tried over 48 hours to manage one of the most consequential crises of the young administration, the situation quickly degenerated into something of a circular firing squad.
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The more important question for Democrats is does this new phase of negative campaigning doom them to the circular firing squad that Biden and Barack Obama have been warning against and make it more likely Donald Trump wins a second term?
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The music explored in the free performance at Bruno Walter Auditorium includes Nourbakhsh's darkly lyrical reed quintet "Firing Squad" and Shirazi's angularly searching violin solo "longing for a distant memory …" and should provide a wide-ranging portrait of a compelling cohort.
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The music explored in the free performance at Bruno Walter Auditorium includes Nourbakhsh's darkly lyrical reed quintet "Firing Squad" and Shirazi's angularly searching violin solo "longing for a distant memory …" and should provide a wide-ranging portrait of a compelling cohort.
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She reflected on the evolution of death penalty methods over time, saying that states turned to lethal injection because it was perceived as the most painless way to kill someone, more humane than the electric chair, gas chamber, or firing squad.
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Not only did the internal battle threaten to extend the rift among Democrats in California — a traditional mother lode of campaign contributions — many Democratic leaders, including former state chair Art Torres, worried about the prospect of a circular firing squad.
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NAIROBI/JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan's army has executed two soldiers by firing squad for murder in the northwest and detained 19 others for offences ranging from murder to looting in Juba after fighting in July between government and opposition troops, officials said.
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An Ohio inmate who requested death by firing squad was rebuffed by a federal judge in November 2017, who ruled that he hadn't made a strong enough argument for why doctors wouldn't be able to find a vein for a lethal injection.
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"At the hearing for constitutional carry in Reps Hall, three of us were dressed in business professional clothes, wearing pearls, and someone from Moms Demand said they wouldn't testify because they felt they were in front of a firing squad," Morin said.
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"They are all in this together, so if it becomes a circular firing squad they are all going to get hit," said John Feehery, a strategist and former aide to Republican leaders on Capitol Hill who is also a columnist for The Hill.
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I don't think I'll ever come to terms with the fact that it was me who slipped the poison into his DNA, with knowing that his children (if he ever has them) will stand in front of this same 50-50 firing squad.
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"I don't see why we would want to start a circular firing squad in our party when we have an opportunity that's almost a once-in-a lifetime opportunity to make a big change for people's lives," he said, breaking with Mr. Flake.
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A relatively genteel primary campaign over the last year has exploded into more of a circular firing squad, which was on full display here at the debate Friday night and escalated anew Saturday, as Joe Biden intensified his attacks on Pete Buttigieg.
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"At the hearing for constitutional carry in Reps Hall, three of us were dressed in business professional clothes, wearing pearls, and someone from Moms Demand said they wouldn't testify because they felt they were in front of a firing squad," Morin told the paper.
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READ: The U.N. tells Duterte to get his head checked Duterte has given shifting responses to the probe, initially daring the ICC to indict him so he could put the prosecutor on the stand, and later saying he would prefer a firing squad to jail.
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Philippine strongman Rodrigo Duterte taunted the International Criminal Court for opening a probe into claims his administration has overseen a wave of extrajudicial killings in its brutal war on drugs, saying he'd rather be shot by firing squad than face prison if found guilty.
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Alva Campbell Jr., who also suffers from lung disease, asthma and heart problems and uses a walker and a colostomy bag, had argued through his lawyer he was too sick for a lethal injection, but lost a bid to be killed by firing squad instead.
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Meanwhile, Lee has been plagued by the aforementioned protesters calling for the firing or resignation of Police Chief Greg Suhr following the December 2 police shooting of Mario Woods, a 26-year-old black man whose death has been described as a firing squad.
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On top of all that, a new protest movement, potentially more dangerous, is growing just north of Kabul, the capital, calling for the government to rebury with dignity a northern bandit king who has been dead for nearly a century, shot by a firing squad.
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In the interview, when he referred to last week's news conference as "a firing squad," Mr. Bentley confirmed some details of a report by Yellowhammer News, which said Tuesday that he and Ms. Mason had shared a safe deposit box at a bank in Montgomery.
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Mr. Alvarez, who was born Asghar Ghahraman in 853, deserted the Iranian Navy as a young man, the penalty for which, he said, was death by firing squad, and he lived in America illegally for nearly 50 years until becoming a citizen in 2011.
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The Chosun Ilbo newspaper, citing a source inside North Korea, reported that Kim Hyok Chol, along with four foreign ministry officials who were involved in preparations for the Vietnam summit, were executed by firing squad at Mirim airport in a suburb of Pyongyang in March.
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"We have to keep our eyes on the ball, resist the temptation to form a circular firing squad, and collaborate to ensure a real progressive leader is elected President in November," said Be a Hero president Liz Jaff in the "Progressives Unite 2020" statement.
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I think we are here a year later, the OTT players, you know, Over-the-Top players, are going to put a big hurt on linear television and they are going to put a big hurt on each other, somewhat of a circular firing squad.
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Officials in some states have advocated bringing back death by firing squad as a response to the diminishing supplies of authorized lethal injection drugs, such as Utah, which lifted an 11-year ban on firing squads in 2015 but has not used the option since 2010.
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One moment, among many: I've got six XCOM operatives lined up like a firing squad on top of an elevated train track above a ruined cityscape, where the ashen remains of the dead are still frozen in place from some alien weapon that was unleashed against them.
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court has rejected a Georgia death row inmate's motion that his scheduled Tuesday execution by lethal injection be halted and that he be put to death instead by a firing squad, which his lawyers said would be less painful for him.
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CreditCreditTracy A. Woodward/The Washington Post, via Getty Images Contributing Opinion Writer In August, four death row inmates filed a federal lawsuit in which they made an extraordinary argument: The state's new lethal-injection protocol is so inhumane that execution by firing squad would be preferable.
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Personnel firing squad: Shots heard around the world Changes in the US national security team and White House staff are not happening in a vacuum, and the world is reacting to a new secretary of state and CIA director (pending confirmation) and a new national security adviser.
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" The family's wrongful death claim against the city -- filed Thursday as a precursor to a lawsuit -- said some responding officers were not wearing uniforms and that a "six person firing squad" shot McCoy about 25 times in the "head, ear, neck, chest, arms, shoulders, hands, and back.
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Since the beginning of the Budget Control Act and the circular firing squad that is sequestration, we've been confronted by a kind of prisoner's dilemma: Democrats and Republicans were each in favor of increasing the defense budget, but the only way they could get there was to cooperate.
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During the 19th and early 20th centuries, pillories and stocks and whipping posts became museum pieces, the hangman and the firing squad were supplanted by more technical methods, and punishment became something that happened elsewhere — in distant prisons and execution chambers, under professional supervision, far from the baying crowd.
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In an event that became pivotal to his ideas on mercy, punishment and death, he watched as the first group of his co-conspirators was rounded up for the firing squad, only to learn, minutes before it was his turn to die, that the sentenced had been commuted.
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Worse: The rest of the epilogue sends Red and his squad into a P.O.W. camp, and they react to the horrors — which, to be clear, is brutal living conditions and a handful of corpses, two of them evidently executed by firing squad — as if it's the worst thing they've seen.
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The Republican party is in a circular firing squad, which is kind of amazing to watch, but I also have a theory—and we will see what happens with time—that what is happening now in feminism and the women's movement can actually be the thing that takes down Trump.
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Then take a deep breath (and a preëmptive gulp of water) before heading south, where, despite your better judgment, you will try the kua kling, a dry beef curry that is advertised as "brutally spicy"; its potency is akin to subjecting your taste buds to a firing squad of capsaicin-loaded machine guns.
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Kilmeade, a mini Sean Hannity in both appearance and affect, performs this duty truculently; he might endure a debate about whether the new Taylor Swift is better than the old Taylor Swift, but you can tell he'd rather be debating whether Robert Mueller should be waterboarded or put before a firing squad.
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GRANADA, Spain — The legacy of Federico García Lorca's hostilities with government lives on these days through his family, whose members are tangling with officials over control of a new $25 million center built to honor García Lorca, the playwright and poet who was executed by firing squad during the Spanish Civil War.
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Giebel, who has a personal interest in the topic because one of his grandfathers was part of a firing squad while the other hid a Jew, said he also wanted the exhibition to show how quickly a democracy could be abolished and make clear that undemocratic movements needed to be nipped in the bud.
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He is one of those unlucky souls—like Auburey Pollard (Nathan Davis, Jr.) and Fred Temple (Jacob Latimore), or a couple of fun-hunting white women (Hannah Murray and Kaitlyn Dever)—who just happen to be at the motel, and who wind up in the hallway, standing and shaking as if before a firing squad.
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" At stake, FDR, said, was "the continuance of civilization as we know it versus the ultimate destruction of all that we have held dear — religion against godlessness; the ideal of justice against the practice of force; moral decency versus the firing squad; courage to speak out, and to act, versus the false lullaby of appeasement.
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Duterte says he'd rather die by firing squad than face prison over his drug war/ Greg Walters — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu protested his innocence on Facebook after local media said Israeli police will soon recommend his indictment for demanding an receiving gifts, including champagne and Cuban cigars, from businessmen in exchange for favors.
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In the run-up to Tuesday&aposs historic face-to-face with Kim, Trump has appeared unconcerned about the implications of feting an authoritarian leader suspected of ordering the public assassination of his half brother with a nerve agent, executing his uncle by firing squad and presiding over a notorious gulag estimated to hold 80,000 to 120,000 political prisoners.
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Read: Duterte's brutal drug war finally gets the International Criminal Court's attention Philippine strongman Rodrigo Duterte taunted the International Criminal Court for opening a probe into claims his administration has overseen a wave of extrajudicial killings in its brutal war on drugs, saying he'd rather be shot by firing squad than face prison if found guilty.
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"There is general White House frustration with a body that said for seven years it would repeal Obamacare and hasn't done it, and general frustration that with a very rare opportunity — maybe once in a decade, where you control the House, Senate, and White House — our own party is involved in a circular firing squad," Kingston said.
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It started when one of the country's best-known clerics, a man regarded as personally close to President Vladimir Putin, dropped a verbal bombshell while making an announcement about the hitherto mysterious workings of a church panel which is tasked with investigating the apparent remains of the last tsar and his family, killed by firing-squad in July 1918.
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The country was embroiled in a bloody civil war between the Reds (the Bolsheviks) and the Whites (the counter-revolutionaries), and when it became clear that Yekaterinburg—where the Romanov's were being kept—was going to fall to the Whites, a Bolshevik firing squad was ordered to shoot the Romanov's in order to prevent their rescue.
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Jung Chang-hyun, head of the Korean Peace and Economy Institute, a research group affiliated with South Korea's Moneytoday news media group, said he had heard that four North Korean Foreign Ministry officials were executed by firing squad around March, not because of the breakdown of the Hanoi summit meeting, but rather for a separate corruption scandal.
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The central legal question in the case is whether the word "manner" in the 1994 law refers to the methods of execution authorized by the relevant states (like hanging, firing squad or lethal injection) or the protocols the states require (like the particular chemicals used in lethal injections or how a catheter is to be inserted).
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