firing-squad

Abstract painting has been awakened at dawn, marched out to the firing-squad wall and granted a last-minute reprieve so many times that it's impossible for it to live a normal life.

Last-Minute Reprieve 2008

Then the colonel pointed first at the priest, and then to the ten frightened hostages, lined up firing-squad fashion.

The cow killers 2006

Then the colonel pointed first at the priest, and then to the ten frightened hostages, lined up firing-squad fashion.

The cow killers 2006

Since 1976, when a ten-year national moratorium ended with Gary Gilmore's firing-squad execution in Utah, 979 persons have been executed in the United States, more than 33 percent of those (347) in Texas and about 85 percent (873) in southern states.

The Roberts Hearing and the Death Penalty 2005

I do not understand his statement that after citing Hemingway's portrait of André Marty as a half-crazed witch-hunter who sent suspected Trotskyites to the firing-squad, "Mr. Knox appears to change his mind."

The Spanish Civil War: An Exchange Gates, Lillian 1995

He was of such help, particularly to Che Guevara, that after the revolution succeeded in January 1, 1959, he was placed in charge of La Cabaa, which was the big municipal prison in Havana where virtually all of the local firing-squad executions were conducted, and there were dozens of them every day.

Muddy Boots and Red Socks 1993

Is this the morning I go before the San Serafino firing-squad, or have I only to roll over to be on top of Lola Montez?

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

Is this the morning I go before the San Serafino firing-squad, or have I only to roll over to be on top of Lola Montez?

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

Is this the morning I go before the San Serafino firing-squad, or have I only to roll over to be on top of Lola Montez?

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

He was due for trial, conviction and the firing-squad because seventeen people had lost their lives when he had shot the driver, and there'd be no chance of a life sentence.

The 9th Directive Hall, Adam 1966