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Death by firing squad - World - smh.com.au Condemned to death by firing squad … Andrew Chan, left, and Myuran Sukumaran in their cell in Bali yesterday. DEATH sentences imposed on the two ringleaders of the Bali nine have triggered a diplomatic crisis for Australia and Indonesia. The death sentences are a rebuff to direct pressure from Australian ministers who made a series of private pleas to Indonesia in December and January, the Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, revealed after the verdicts. www.smh.com.au /articles/2006/02/14/1139890737078.html?from=top5   (805 words)

Encyclopedia: Death by firing squad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) The firing squad is commonly used to execute spies. Use of firing squads in the US According to Executions in the U.S. by M. Watt Espy and John Ortiz Smylka, it is estimated that 142 men have been judicially shot in the United States and English-speaking predecessor territories since 1608, excluding executions related to the American Civil War. Since Gilmore's death, the only other execution by firing squad, that of John Albert Taylor in 1996, was also in Utah, which retained the firing squad as the default method of execution until 1980. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Death-by-firing-squad   (758 words)

Execution by firing squad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Firing squads in the US According to Executions in the U.S. by M. Watt Espy and John Ortiz Smylka, it is estimated that 142 men have been judicially shot in the United States and English-speaking predecessor territories since 1608, excluding executions related to the American Civil War. It was relaunched by the execution of Gary Gilmore on January 24, 1977 at Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah by a five-man firing squad. The firing squad was banned in Utah by a law passed on March 15, 2004, leaving Idaho and Oklahoma as the only states where it is still legal, although four Utah convicts that previously chose to die by firing squad will have their requests honored should they ultimately be executed. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Death_by_firing_squad   (814 words)

Execution by firing squad -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) Execution by firing squad is a method of (Putting a condemned person to death) capital punishment, especially in times of (The waging of armed conflict against an enemy) war. A firing (A smallest army unit) squad is a group of people (usually (An enlisted man or woman who serves in an army) soldiers) who are ordered to shoot at the condemned person simultaneously. Firing squads may also be used for (additional info and facts about political crime) political crimes. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ex/execution_by_firing_squad.htm   (529 words)

Death by firing squad is rarely fast - World - www.smh.com.au For death row inmates in Indonesia, execution usually comes on a deserted beach or remote jungle at the hands of a paramilitary firing squad. "With a firing squad, there is often a time lapse until they actually die," Soehandoyo said, adding death must be certified by a doctor. But the country is mulling legal changes which would allow the firing squad to be replaced by a lethal injection as the means of execution. www.smh.com.au /news/World/Death-by-firing-squad-is-rarely-fast/2005/04/19/1113854200973.html?from=moreStories   (527 words)

[No title] Sentenced to death by firing squad on 06/04/02. Sentenced to death by firing squad on 17/10/02. Sentenced to death by firing squad on 19/10/02. www.phrmg.org /aqsa/courts.htm   (188 words)

WORLD & NATION: 2 Utah inmates choose death by firing squad 2 Utah inmates choose death by firing squad Anti-death penalty forces are protesting, arguing that the firing squad amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. Utah's use of firing squads predates statehood in 1896 and is a remnant of the early Mormon belief that bloodshed is a required punishment for taking a life, said Richard Dieter, director of the Death Penalty Information Center, which says it is neutral about the death penalty but critical of its application. www.sptimes.com /2003/05/23/Worldandnation/2_Utah_inmates_choose.shtml   (445 words)

Palestinian “Collaborators” Killed, Injured, or Detained Sentenced to death by firing squad on 04/06/02. Sentenced to death by firing squad on 10/17/2002 Note: he was sentenced to death by firing squad on 04/06/02 for collaboration with the enemy (Israel). www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Peace/collaborators.html   (1999 words)

Capital punishment - the death penalty: developments in 2004 It removes death by firing squad as an option that can be chosen by convicted murderers. Four convicted murderers who have already selected the firing squad will have their wishes granted if they are eventually executed. Utah firing squads employ five riflemen, of whom one is firing a blank. www.religioustolerance.org /exe_news04.htm   (135 words)

deseretnews.com | Are firing squads a thing of past? Taylor chose the firing squad and became the first killer executed by the method in the United States since 1977, when Gary Gilmore died against a wall at the Utah State Prison. King says she's not opposed to the firing squad as a means of execution, but doesn't like the publicity that comes with it — a glare that focuses unfairly on the killer, not the victim. "The firing squad brings an enormous amount of attention, but the attention is on the method and the criminal, bringing very little to the victim or the viciousness of the crime," Sheryl Allen said. deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,575040828,00.html   (745 words)

Excerpt: The Unforgiven: Utah's Excecuted Men Utah allows the condemned to choose between a firing squad and another form of death, originally beheading or hanging but now lethal injection. The punishment prescribed for first-degree murder was execution with the condemned allowed to choose among firing squad, hanging, or beheading. Death is death and I would interpret the shedding of man's blood in legal executions as a figurative expression which means the taking of life. www.signaturebooks.com /excerpts/unforgiv.htm   (1478 words)

Independent Online Edition > Asia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) The 'mastermind' of last year's nightclub bombings in Bali was sentenced to death by firing squad today for carrying out the bombings. Ghufron is the third defendant in the case to be sentenced to death for the attack last October which killed 202 people, many of them Australian tourists. Death sentences in Indonesia are rare, but are allowed under a new anti-terror law adopted in the wake of the Bali attack. news.independent.co.uk /world/asia/article89441.ece   (631 words)

Old and bloody tradition revived as Utah prepares firing squad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) The firing squad tradition is rooted in Mormon custom, which holds that blood must be shed for the crime of murder to be appropriately punished. A firing squad may be messy, but there's far less chance of something going wrong, and it's quick; therefore, more humane than hanging or the electric chair or the gas chamber. First, the death penalty had been reinstated in the United States in 1976 (not without controversy) after a 10-year hiatus and Gilmore was to become the first prisoner to be executed. www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/916191/posts   (2894 words)

Gary Gilmore's Home On The Web   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) On January 17, 1977, Gary Mark Gilmore was put to death by firing squad at Draper State Prison, Point of the Mountain, Utah. Over a series of two nights, he systematically put to death a gas station attendant named Max Jensen and a hotel desk clerk named Bennie Bushnell, forcing each man to lie face down on the floor as he put a gun to their heads and pulled the trigger. The simple fact that Gary's was to be the first execution since the reinstatement of the death penalty should have been enough to garner the attention of the media, but the circumstances were so extraordinary that they drew not only the attention of the United States but the entire world as well. www.edistodesign.com /gary   (767 words)

Libyan Health Professionals Arrested Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were sentenced to death by firing squad on allegations of intentionally infecting over 400 children with HIV at al-Fateh Children's Hospital in Benghazi, Libya. The death sentences were handed down before a process to investigate the alleged torture of the prisoners was even completed. The death penalty is in direct violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, both of which call for the inherent right to life. www.phrusa.org /campaigns/action_alerts/libya.html   (1436 words)

America's Debate -> Utah's Firing Squad According to this article from the Salt Lake Tribune, death by firing squad is still an option for death-row inmates. This is a description of an execution by Firing Squad, and I don't understand why one of the shooters would be loaded with blanks. Moving along...Authormusician, I don't believe in the death penalty, so I understand where you are coming from, but stepping away from ideology for a moment, I can see that the firing squad may be a less cruel form of execution than some of the others listed. www.americasdebate.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=2083   (1922 words)

Utah readies firing squad Oklahoma law allows use of a firing squad if lethal injection and electrocution are ever ruled unconstitutional, and Idaho can use a firing squad when lethal injection is found to be "impractical," a circumstance that has yet to present itself. Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said death-row inmates seek alternative means of execution for a variety of reasons, one of them to demonstrate what they deem the barbaric nature of capital punishment, especially in states like Utah that only rarely carry out the death penalty. Kell requested a firing squad only because he did not like the idea that poison would otherwise be injected into his veins, said Stephen Mc- Caughey, a lawyer who represented him for many years. www.nusd.k12.az.us /schools/nhs/gthomson.class/articles/eighth.amd/utah.firing.squad.htm   (799 words)

FORWARDED APPEAL (Indonesia): Two Indonesian prisoners facing death by firing squad The two were sentenced to death on 26 March 2002 by a court in West Sumatra, for the premeditated murder of three members of a family in North Sumatra province, in December 2001. Every death sentence is an affront to human dignity, every execution a symptom of a culture of violence, rather than a solution to it. I have learned that Irwan Sadawa and his brother Taroni were sentenced to death by a Court in Western Sumatra on 26 March 2002 for the alleged murder of three members of a family in North Sumatra province in December 2001. www.ahrchk.net /ua/mainfile.php/2005/1110   (914 words)

Capital Abuse in Communist Vietnam During one week in March 1995 five men in Vietnam were executed by firing squad for various convictions. A justification for the death penalty is that an individual has inflicted egregious harm on the society or its members. The concern is that the Government of Vietnam employs the death penalty to eliminate its opponents. www.fva.org /0595/abuse.html   (808 words)

[No title] SOME legal experts in Bangladesh believe that in sentencing to death by firing squad those found guilty of assassinating Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Judge of the District and Sessions Court, Dhaka, Kazi Golam Rasul, may have exceeded the limits of penal law. However, Judge Kazi Golam Rasul ruled that "if there were any problems for the authorities" in executing the death sentence by firing squad, the conventional method of execution, by hanging, could be resorted to. He said that the sentencing of the guilty to death by firing squad was "illegal". www.flonnet.com /fl1524/15240070.htm   (608 words)

The World Today - Execution by firing squad still used in Utah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) PETER CAVE: Later this month a convicted serial killer in the American State of Utah is scheduled to be put to death by firing squad. A legacy of the Atate's Mormon founders, the firing squad remains one of Utah's methods of execution, and as our North America Correspondent John Shovelan reports, there's a movement in the United States determined to ensure that some of the more brutal means of execution remain part of US law and order. JOHN SHOVELAN: For the past couple of weeks authorities in Utah have been seeking out volunteer marksman for a firing squad and later this month, convicted serial killer Robert Arguelles will stand before five rifles and be shot to death. www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2003/s879371.htm   (635 words)

COURTTV.COM - TOP NEWS A serial killer and a white supremacist are set to be executed in Utah by firing squad. It may be a surprise to learn that age-old methods of execution such as the firing squad or hanging could still be used in the United States — and even more shocking to learn that some death row inmates throughout the country have actually chosen these ways to die. Death Penalty Argument: The experts discuss DNA and the pro and con perspectives. www.courttv.com /news/death_penalty   (527 words)

The Scotsman - International - Bali bomb mastermind sentenced to death by firing squad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) THE "intellectual mastermind" behind the Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people was sentenced yesterday to death by firing squad. Samudra’s lawyers said they would appeal the sentence, claiming he did not deserve to be put to death. Death sentences in Indonesia are rare, but are allowed under an anti-terror law adopted in the wake of the Bali attack. thescotsman.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=999832003   (459 words)

Death by firing squad for Australian - National - theage.com.au A department spokeswoman said Australian officials attended the trial of the 46-year-old man, who was charged with conspiring with two others to smuggle heroin from Vietnam to Australia. News agency AFP reported from Hanoi that Mai faced death by firing squad for trying to send heroin stuffed in loudspeakers to Australia two years ago. Several other Australian nationals of Vietnamese origin are on death row but foreigners are rarely executed in the communist country. www.theage.com.au /news/National/Death-by-firing-squad-for-Aussie/2005/06/10/1118347577025.html   (414 words)

Online edition of Daily News - World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) BALI, Indonesia, Thursday (Reuters) An Indonesian court on Thursday sentenced a Muslim radical responsible for last year's Bali bombings to death by firing squad. He was the fourth key suspect to be convicted for the October 12, 2002 bomb attacks and the third to be sentenced to death. A third brother, Ali Imron, was given a life sentence after he cooperated with authorities, showed remorse and urged family and followers not to imitate him. www.dailynews.lk /2003/10/03/wor02.html   (234 words)

AEGiS-AP: Six Bulgarian Medics Receive Death Sentence in Libya Case BENGHAZI, Libya - A Libyan court condemned Thursday six Bulgarian medics to death by firing squad for infecting hundreds of patients with the human immune-deficiency virus that causes AIDS. "The court is sentencing the defendants No. 1-6 to death by firing squad," said the head of the five-judge panel that heard the case, Fadallah el-Sherif. Prosecutors had demanded death sentences, accusing the Bulgarians of intentionally infecting more than 400 children with HIV-contaminated blood as part of an experiment to find a cure for AIDS. www.aegis.com /news/ap/2004/AP040508.html   (630 words)

Asia Death Penalty: Firing squad for six of Bali Nine The death penalty is a cruel, futile and dangerous punishment, and the Asian region is home to some of the world's leading executioners. In contrast to the six death sentences, a hastily convened meeting of Supreme Court judges on Wednesday gave life sentences to Bali Nine members Martin Stephens and Michael Czugaj. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Muhammad Taufik, the judge who presided over the appeals from Stephens and Czugaj said he ordered life imprisonment as "we believe a life sentence is enough for their role as couriers with no part in organising it". asiadeathpenalty.blogspot.com /2006/09/firing-squad-for-six-of-bali-nine.html   (875 words)

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