Stand Before the Firing Squad
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Execution by firing squad - Execution by firing squad is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in times of war. The firing squad is generally composed of several soldiers or peace officers.
Squad automatic weapon - A squad automatic weapon (SAW) is a light or general-purpose machine gun, usually equipped with a bipod and firing a rifle-caliber bullet. A SAW is used to provide suppressive fire for an infantry squad or section.
Bishopsgate mutiny - ... occurred in April 1649 when soldiers of Colonel Edward Whalley's regiment of the New Model Army refused to obey orders and leave London. At the end of the mutiny one soldier, a supporter of the Levellers, Robert Lockier, was executed by firing squad.
Boris Shumyatsky - Boris Zakharovich Shumyatsky (), the de-facto Executive Producer for the Soviet film monopoly from 1930 to 1937, was born November 4, 1886 somewhere in the vicinity of Lake Baikal in Russian Siberia. He was executed by firing squad as a traitor on July 29, 1938, following a "purge" of the Soviet film industry approved, if not instigated, by Joseph Stalin, and much information about him was expunged from the public record in consequence thereof.
