How to Use firing squad in a Sentence

firing squad

noun
  • Here is a look at the status of firing squads in the United States.
    Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • At least one Ohio death-row inmate has asked to be put to death via firing squad.
    Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland.com, 31 July 2019
  • The last execution by firing squad in the U.S. was in 2010.
    Fox News, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The inmate, Ernest Johnson, had asked to instead be put to death by a firing squad.
    Adam Liptak, New York Times, 24 May 2021
  • His stomach was pumped, and he was propped up before a firing squad.
    Robert O. Paxton, Harper's Magazine, 17 Dec. 2023
  • If the court rejects the appeals, two British men and a Moroccan could face a firing squad.
    Maria Grazia Murru, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2022
  • But the idea of using firing squads is making a comeback.
    Michael Tarm, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The state is one of only nine to still use the electric chair and will become only the fourth to allow a firing squad.
    Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 6 May 2021
  • Lawmakers allowed a firing squad to be added in 2021, as part of the same law that restarted the state's use of the electric chair.
    CBS News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Stalin was a man of gulags and firing squads, a poster villain for the dangers posed by despots.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, latimes.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • His brother was the last person in Utah — and the U.S. — to be executed by firing squad in 2010.
    Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The plan is that he will either be electrocuted or shot to death by a firing squad — the state leaves the option up to him.
    Joel Mathis, The Week, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Stan and Ollie join the Foreign Legion and wind up scheduled for a firing squad.
    Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
  • One of the Aarons photographs captured the moment that the firing squad had aimed at one of its prisoners.
    Lesley M.m. Blume, Town & Country, 28 May 2021
  • Idris hopes to make a film about Lawrence Anini, a Nigerian bandit who was killed by a firing squad in 1987.
    Demetria L. Lucas, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Parler did remove Wood's post calling on Pence to face a firing squad.
    Grant Gross, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2021
  • What’s harder to watch are the random acts of violence shown in full detail: Men picked off in front of a firing squad.
    Amber Dowling, Variety, 2 May 2024
  • Guests also encountered a firing squad, where black bags were placed over their heads and they were shot with small nerf balls.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Only one person has been killed by firing squad since 1996.
    Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Those included one that said Woodall and her staff should be put in front of a firing squad, Woodall testified.
    Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Three inmates, all in Utah, have been killed by firing squad since the U.S. reinstated the death penalty in 1977.
    BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2021
  • Like there’s this kind of invisible firing squad around us at all times.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 22 July 2024
  • When asked what the most humane way to execute someone would be, Lain’s answer is the firing squad.
    Dana G. Smith, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2022
  • There has only been one firing squad execution in 50 years in the U.S.
    James Farrell, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The state, one of eight that still electrocute inmates, has yet to assemble a firing squad.
    Meg Kinnard, Star Tribune, 6 June 2021
  • After the 2019 case was decided, Mr. Johnson sought to amend his lawsuit to ask for a firing squad.
    Adam Liptak, New York Times, 24 May 2021
  • Senators voted 32-11 in favor of adding the firing squad to the bill, which is expected to pass the Senate this week.
    Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021
  • South Carolina is one of eight states to still use the electric chair and one of four to allow a firing squad, according to the center.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2022
  • South Carolina law allows condemned inmates to choose lethal injection, the new firing squad or the electric chair built in 1912.
    CBS News, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Mississippi, Oklahoma, Utah and Idaho are the only other states that allow the firing squad method.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 9 Oct. 2024

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