Eventually the kidnapping of drug cartel family members by guerrillas led to the creation of the 1981 Muerte a Secuestradores ( MAS ) death squad (" Death to Kidnappers ").

New Republic editor Michael Kinsley argued that critics should not simply dismiss State Department justifications for death squad attacks on " soft targets ": " The State Department has defended bloody contra attacks on government-sponsored farm cooperatives, saying that these civilian facilities have military aspects.

* 1980 – Four U. S. nuns and churchwomen, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, are murdered by a death squad in El Salvador.

He was sentenced to death by a court-martial and was executed by firing squad.

When the death sentence was passed, according to Moskalenko's later account, Beria pleaded on his knees for mercy before collapsing to the floor and wailing and crying energetically, but to no avail: the other six defendants were executed by firing squad on 23 December 1953, the same day as the trial, while Beria was fatally shot through the forehead by General Batitsky after the latter stuffed a rag into Beria's mouth to silence his bawling.

* 1977 – Former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. is found guilty by the Philippine Military Commission No. 2 and is sentenced to death by firing squad.

* 1989 – A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops kills six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.

In Wilkerson v. Utah,, the Court stated that death by firing squad was not cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment.

* January 17 – Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in Utah ( the first execution after the reintroduction of the death penalty in the U. S .).

* October 15 – WWII: Pierre Laval, the former premier of Vichy France, is shot to death by a firing squad for treason against France.

** The Norwegian Nazi leader Vidkun Quisling is shot to death by a firing squad for treason against Norway.

* December 2 – American missionary Jean Donovan and three Roman Catholic nuns are murdered by a military death squad in El Salvador while volunteering to do charity work during the country's civil war.

* Unión de Guerreros Blancos ( White Warriors ' Union ), a death squad founded to repress leftist elements in El Salvador

The guillotine was then the only civil legal execution method in France until the abolition of the death penalty in 1981, apart from certain crimes against the security of the state, or for the death sentences passed by military courts, which entailed execution by firing squad.

In addition, Eisenhower's execution orders and Slovik's death by firing squad are included in a scene in the 1963 film The Victors.

The US ignored pleas from the Aristide government for an international peacekeeping force as a motley band of armed thugs led by a suspected drug trafficker and fugitive death squad leaders overran more than half the country.

Run by the charismatic warden, Juan Ruiz " El Fuego " Escarzaga ( Tony Plana ), the place is known for its new state of the art death chamber where the condemned can choose from five different ways to die — lethal injection, gas chamber, hanging, firing squad, or electric chair.

Tatiana and her family had time only to utter a few incoherent sounds of shock or protest before the death squad under Yurovsky's command began shooting.

The celebrated horseman and bush poet Lt. Harry " Breaker " Morant and Lt. Peter Handcock were found guilty, sentenced to death, and shot by firing squad at Pietersburg on 27 February 1902.

He was seized from a bus by a death squad at the Costa Rican border.

The four mercenaries sentenced to death were shot by a firing squad on 10 July 1976.

The killing is perhaps the only one performed by the GAL death squad within Spain itself.

Italy had used the firing squad as its only form of death penalty, both for civilians and military, since the unification of the country in 1861.

The last execution took place on March 4, 1947, as Francesco La Barbera, Giovanni Puleo and Giovanni D ' Ignoti, sentenced to death on multiple accounts of robbery and murder, faced the firing squad at the range of Basse di Stura, near Turin.

It is their tultul, the ' jumping platform ' of death.

Hamm's world is death and Clov may or may not get out of it to join the living child outside.

Boredom is death.

But the highroad, according to the description of its traffic, belongs to life as it is lived in unawareness of death, while the way to the churchyard belongs to some other sort of life: a suffering form, an existence wholly comprised in the awareness of death.

Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

He is born in secrecy after the death of his father and cast adrift soon after birth.

Malraux, to be sure, does not abandon the world of violence, combat and sudden death which has become his hallmark as a creative artist, and which is the only world, apparently, in which his imagination can flame into life.

Patchen is repeatedly preoccupied with death.

He mentions the beats only once '', when he refers to their having revived through mere power and abandonment and the unwillingness to, commit death in life some idea of a decent equivalent between verbal expression and actual experience,, but the entire narrative, is written in the tiresome vocabulary `` of '' that lost `` and '' dying cause, `` and in the '' `` sprung syntax that is supposed to supplant, our mother, tongue.

What they have objected to is the attempt of the Russians to make use of the tragedy of Dag Hammarskjold's death to turn the entire U.N. staff from the Secretary down into political agents of the respective countries from which they come.

This matter is of great importance, and the outcome may mean the difference between life or death, or at least serious injuries, for many veterans.

Sir -- An old man is kicked to death by muggers.

I once heard a comedian say that if you are killed by a taxicab in New York, it is listed as `` death due to natural causes ''.

Her mother wrote Kate of her grief at the death of Kate's baby and at Jonathan's decision to go with the South `` And, dear Kate '', she wrote, `` poor Dr. Breckenridge's son Robert is now organizing a militia company to go South, to his good father's sorrow.

There is a death in all partings, she knew, and promptly put it out of her mind.

They hail from Travancore, a state in the subcontinent where Kali, the goddess of death, is worshiped.

He is confronted with the recurrent crises, such as great natural catastrophes and the great transitions of life -- marriage, incurable disease, widowhood, old age, the certainty of death.

Therefore, it is not only a question of honor but of life and death for the Soviet state ''.

the ceramic material of the age is more abundant, more diversified, and more indicative of the hopes and fears of its makers, who begin to show scenes of human life and death.

Whereas, John Brown has cheerfully risked his life in endeavoring to deliver those who are denied all rights and is this day doomed to suffer death for his efforts in behalf of those who have no helper: Therefore,

As the first collective confrontation of the Nazi outrage, the Trial of Eichmann represents a recovery of the Jews from the shock of the death camps, a recovery that took fifteen years and which is still by no means complete ( though let no one believe that it could be hastened by silence ).