Talk:Execution by shooting

examples
From http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/overview.html:


 * Chinese and Uzbekistan shootings are carried out by a single bullet to the back of the head
 * Yemen lays the prisoner on the ground and a single executioner shoots them with an automatic rifle

Independent confirmation (reference) needed. `'mikka (t) 07:57, 30 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Greatrobo76: I think we should merge execution by firing squad and execution by shooting together and rename it Execution by Firearm. Sound fair? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Greatrobo76 (talk • contribs) 15:23, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Examples from the Soviet bloc chapter is not entirely correct and is rather incomplete. The headshot execution was introduced not only because traditional shooting by the firing squad was solemn and lengthy but mainly because shooting from some distance in many cases only wounded the convict, an extra shot was required to finish him. Nevertheless public executions by the firing squad in front of the convict’s unit (for desertion, self-injury and cowardly conduct in front of the enemy) were practiced in the Red Army during World War II. Hanging which in Russia is believed to be most disgracing and dishonoring form of execution was practiced for a short time after World War II against convicted for high treason (eg. General Vlasov and his accomplices) and active collaborationists (provided collaboration was aggravated with other crimes like mass murders). Electrocution and gas chamber in Russia are believed to be genuinely “cruel and unusual” (and rather ineffective) whereas lethal injection is believed to be an insult to the medical profession. Igor Baltenkov. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.71.174.84 (talk) 11:39, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Request for clarification and return to original purpose
This page was originally written to describe "execution by a single round to the head", a concept that several editors had tried unsuccessfully to shoehorn into the execution by firing squad article. The concept was inappropriate on the firing squad page because of the vastly different social issues and implications. (Execution by firing squad, for example, has to deal with the concept of diffusion of responsibility, a concept not relevant when there is a single executioner.) This page was broken out to allow for a more rich discussion of the single-shooter execution method.

Unfortunately, because the article name wasn't great, the page has been generalized so much that it is now a self-evident definition plus a few examples. I propose that the article's scope be returned to the single-shooter concept and the page renamed. Any suggestions? Rossami (talk) 19:38, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Primitive simplification
So called "communist countries" were different countries with different history and legal systems. For example, in Czechoslovakia was hanging only method of execution. Shooting could purely come in force in case of war ("increased endangering of country") - it was never used. Before WWII (i.e. democratic Czechoslovakia, 1918-38) were 433 persons sentenced to death, but only 21 really executed. Immediately after WWII (1945-48) were about 730 persons executed (quislings, traitors, war criminals etc.). During communist rule were 237 persons executed between 1948-53 (190 for "political crimes") and 219 between 1953-89 (only felons - multiple murderers etc.).

I am a little disappointed by this article because it concentrates almost completely on the last century and a half but fails to explore the history of the subject. It is known that this practice was in use during the English Civil War, Lucas and Lisle being shot outside Colchester Castle, after the siege, but I wish to discover whether these are the earliest cases.Smlark (talk) 01:26, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

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