firing squad
Example Sentences
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“These kids did an adult job, basically facing a firing squad every day,” her daughter-in-law, Libby Boyce, said in an interview.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2025
Borrowing from what Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested in 2017, we can’t know whether his death was “comparatively painless” or whether, as Denno says, South Carolina’s firing squad delivered a “swift and certain death.”
From Slate • Mar. 11, 2025
The only sure fact for now is Mr Krieger – who had been facing death by firing squad – has been spared.
From BBC • Jul. 30, 2024
“The use of the firing squad is, in my opinion, beneath the dignity of the state of Idaho.”
From Washington Times • Mar. 20, 2023
Bailey stood alone at the front of the class, as if he was facing a firing squad.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
