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Execution by shooting is a method of capital punishment in which a person is shot to death by one or more firearms. It is the most common method of execution worldwide, used in about 70 countries, with execution by firing squad being one particular form.
- Execution by firing squad
Execution by firing squad, in the past sometimes called...
- Execution by firing squad
Shooting: The other most prevalent method. Can be applied: By a single shot (such as a shot to the back of a head or heart, as in Afghanistan, Belarus, China, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Gaza Strip, Libya, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Taiwan, Yemen, and Russia before the moratorium). By machine gun (as in Thailand before the switch to ...
MethodDescriptionCrushing by elephant. [4] Biting by ...Suffocation in ash. Carbon monoxide ...Back-breakingA Mongolian method of execution that ...Tying to the mouth of a cannon, which is ...Blowing from a gun is a method of execution in which the victim is typically tied to the mouth of a cannon which is then fired, resulting in death. George Carter Stent described the process as follows: The prisoner is generally tied to a gun with the upper part of the small of his back resting against the muzzle.
Ginggaew Lorsoungnern (Thai: กิ่งแก้ว ลอสูงเนิน; RTGS: Kingkaeo Lo-sungnoen; 31 December 1927 – 13 January 1979) was a Thai woman executed in 1979 for conspiring in a kidnapping and murder plot. She was the second woman in Thai history to be executed by gunfire.
On 29 June the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights documented the unlawful killings, including summary executions, of at least 50 civilians in Bucha. In December 2022, that number was increased to at least 73, with an additional 105 deaths being investigated. [3]
Electrocution. Seeking a more humane method of execution than hanging, New York built the first electric chair in 1888 and executed William Kemmler in 1890. Soon, other states adopted this execution method. Today, electrocution is not used as the sole method of execution in any state.
