Otto arrives with his " crack suicide squad ", sending the Roman soldiers fleeing in terror.

* 1915 – World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium

On October 12, 1998 twenty-five soldiers in the Sierra Leone army, including Corporal Tamba Gborie, Brigadier Hassan Karim Conteh, Colonel Samuel Francis Koroma, Major Kula Samba and Colonel Abdul Karim Sesay, were executed by firing squad after they were convicted at a court martial in Freetown for orchestrating the 1997 coup that ousted president Kabbah from power.

In 1991 GDW licensees Paragon developed a computer game adaptation ( complete with expansion, " the Colonel ") of Twilight 2000 depicting a squad of 20 soldiers stranded behind enemy lines in Poland, struggling against the despot Baron Czarny.

Another brief scene later cut related to a firing squad, where two U. S. soldiers are blindfolded and executed.

* October 12 – WWI: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium.

The unrepentent Slovik said to the soldiers whose duty it was to prepare him for the firing squad before they led him to the place of execution, " They're not shooting me for deserting the United States Army, thousands of guys have done that.

Twelve picked soldiers were detailed for the firing squad from the 109th Regiment.

Despite their ongoing struggles, the Masens are reluctant to leave their home but their hand is forced by the arrival of a squad of soldiers the next day who represent a despotic new government which is setting up feudal enclaves across the country.

According to this investigation, a squad of Polish soldiers was sent in to clarify the situation after hearing shots being fired within the city.

A firing squad is normally composed of several soldiers or law enforcement officers.

Australian soldiers Harry " Breaker " Morant and Peter Handcock were shot by a British firing squad in South Africa on February 27, 1902, for alleged war crimes during the Boer War ; questions have since been raised as to whether they received a fair trial.

Seven soldiers were subsequently executed by firing squad.

On another occasion, a diary by Josh Ellison states that in the winter of 1864 a squad of soldiers from Paducah burned the east side of the court square on Friday night, and on Monday they burned the north side of the court square.

Volley fire allowed armies to turn their usual formation into a rotating firing squad with each row of soldiers firing a shot then marching to the back of the formation to reload, a technique first proposed by Aelian.

It then took the meaning of a small group of people, in particular a small group of soldiers, a platoon or, more specifically, a firing squad.

In most armies a squad consists of eight to thirteen soldiers, and may be further subdivided into fireteams.

In the United States Army, a squad is composed of two fireteams of four soldiers each, as well as a squad leader who is a Staff Sergeant.

A squad can also be an ad hoc group of soldiers assigned to a task, for example, a firing squad.

Fireteams generally consist of four or fewer soldiers and are usually grouped by two or three teams into a squad or section.

Many other armed forces see the squad as the smallest military unit ; some countries ' armies have a pair consisting of two soldiers as the smallest military unit.

A company's weapons platoon will carry portable support weapons by sections, but also include a fast-attack light-infantry specialist squad of soldiers trained for breaching, raiding, and close combat.

On 31 December of that same year, a squad from al-Assifa, Fatah's original armed wing, attempted to infiltrate Israel, but they were intercepted and detained by Lebanese security forces.

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.

A squad armed with backpack flamethrowers had an important part in the 2012 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony.

Execution by firing squad in the United Kingdom was limited to times of war, armed insurrection and within the military, although it is now outlawed in all circumstances, along with all other forms of capital punishment.

A death squad is an armed military, police, insurgent, or terrorist squad that conducts extrajudicial killings, assassinations, and forced disappearances of persons as part of a war, insurgency or terror campaign.

In the context of a Stryker Brigade Combat Team ( SBCT )' s Infantry Rifle Companies, one man from each fireteam in a rifle squad is either the Squad Anti-armor Specialist ( RMAT ), armed with the FGM-148 Javelin, or the Squad Designated Marksman, who carries the M4 carbine and M14 rifle.

At that time the US Marine squad consisted of a Corporal and seven Marines all armed with a bolt-action M1903 Springfield rifle and an automatic rifleman armed with a Browning Automatic Rifle.

With the introduction of weapons such as the Thompson submachine gun and Winchester Model 1912 shotgun and the thick vegetation that could provide cover for a quick overrun of a patrol, a team of four men armed with these weapons had more firepower and maneuverability than the standard nine-man squad.

** BMO-1 ( boyevaya mashina ognemyotchikov ) – Transport vehicle for a flamethrower squad, armed with 30 RPO-A " Shmel " napalm rocket launchers of 93 mm.

The death penalty can be imposed for a wide range of offences including murder, rape, armed robbery, repeated drug use, apostasy, adultery, witchcraft and sorcery and can be carried out by beheading with a sword, stoning or firing squad, followed by crucifixion.

The story is often told of how the Dynamo team, playing as " Start, City of Kiev All-Stars ", was executed by a firing squad in the summer of 1942 for defeating an All-Star team from the German armed forces by 5 – 1.

The new tactics developed by Captain Rohr, building much on his own previous experiences from the front, was based on the use of squad sized stormtroops (" Sturmtruppen " or " Stoßtruppen "), supported by a number of heavy support weapons and field artillery that was to be coordinated at the lowest level possible and rolling up enemy trenches using troops armed with hand grenades.

Nelson had served in a USMC elite Force Recon unit during WWII and based the SWAT concept on the Recon units, believing that a small squad of highly trained police officers armed with special weapons would be more effective in a riotous situation than a massive police response.

They are ambushed by a hit squad armed with automatic weapons who brutally slaughter the bodyguards and the witness.

Their document claimed the death squad had abducted the victims, tortured and murdered them, and then hurriedly buried them ; later, they claimed, after questions had been raised in Congress, that the armed forces had exhumed, incinerated, and reburied the bodies in another location.

" A squad of armed Confederate sailors boarded and too Dillingham and the rest of the clipper's small crew prisoner.

In its robot mode it is armed with the, a powerful laser gun, the, a handcuff that shoots off on a chain,, blades that extends from the wrists, and, a riot squad shield.

Direct orders are an exception in the German armed forces, while " tasks " are the standard instrument of leadership from high command down to squad level.

She was assassinated outside her office in Guatemala City ( stabbed 27 times ) by an armed forces death squad ( allegedly educated by the School of the Americas ) because she knew too much.

They head outside one by one, armed, to face the team of shotgun-toting police officers assembled by a legion of squad cars.

Having arrived too late to break up the party, he, however, discerns Belov's face, and upon returning to his station recognizes him on the wanted poster and immediately calls the OMON ( armed police squad ) for an arrest.