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execution by shooting

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  • Execution by shooting — is a form of capital punishment whereby an executed person is shot by one or more firearms. It is the most common method of execution worldwide, used in about 70 countries.cite web | url = http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/shooting.html …   Wikipedia

  • Execution by firing squad — Firing squad and shot at dawn redirect here. For other uses, see Firing squad (disambiguation). For the UK memorial, see Shot at Dawn Memorial. Part of a series on Capital punishment …   Wikipedia

  • Shooting the messenger — is a metaphoric phrase used to describe the act of lashing out at the (blameless) bearer of bad news. Moses and the Messengers from Canaan (painting by Giovanni Lanfranco) In earlier times, messages were usually delivered in person by a human… …   Wikipedia

  • execution — [n1] killing beheading, capital punishment, contract killing*, crucifixion, decapitation, electrocution, gassing, guillotining, hanging, hit, impalement, lethal injection, necktie party*, punishment, rub out*, shooting, strangling, strangulation; …   New thesaurus

  • Shooting of the Romanov family — The Romanovs. From left to right: Olga, Maria, Nicholas II, Alexandra, Anastasia, Alexei, and Tatiana. Livadia, 1913 The shooting of the Romanov family, of the Russian Imperial House of Romanov, and those who chose to accompany th …   Wikipedia

  • Execution by elephant — A condemned prisoner being dismembered by an elephant in Ceylon. Drawing from An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon by Robert Knox (1681). Execution by elephant was a common method of capital punishment in South and Southeast Asia, and… …   Wikipedia

  • Execution of Lucy and James Sample — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Execution of Lucy and James Sample caption=Nehemiah Matson s 1878 depiction of the Sample s execution by burning. partof=the Black Hawk War date=mid ndash;May 1832 (possibly 18 May or 19 May) place= South of… …   Wikipedia

  • shooting — Synonyms and related words: acute, acute pain, afflictive, agonizing, antiaircraft fire, archery, atrocious, bane, beheading, bite, biting, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, boring pain, braining, burning, capital punishment, casting, charley horse …   Moby Thesaurus

  • execution — Synonyms and related words: accomplished fact, accomplishment, accordance, achievement, acquittal, acquittance, action, adherence, administration, agency, angary, annexation, annexure, approach, art, assassination, attachment, attainment, ax,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • execution — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The carrying out of instructions or plans] Syn. fulfilling, accomplishment, doing; see achievement 1 , 2 , performance 1 . 2. [Death by official order] Syn. capital punishment, killing, electrocution, hanging, gassing,… …   English dictionary for students

  • execution — n 1. accomplishment, fulfillment, realization, success, attainment, acquirement; achievement, performance, production; completion, consummation, finishing, conclusion. 2. capital punishment, j udicial murder; hanging, lynching, Euph. necktie… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

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