A button and a buckle: the memory of Franco's firing squads 85 years on
Josefina Fortea, 92, was seven when her father Jose, a farm labourer, faced a firing squad sent by General Francisco Franco.
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Why This Physician Testifies in Favor of the Firing Squad
James Williams is an ER doctor, a hunter, a gunshot victim — and the go-to expert for death row prisoners seeking an ...
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Idaho beefs up firing squad as Bryan Kohbeger trial nears
Idaho lawmakers are moving to bolster their newly restored firing squad as the state's primary means of execution with eight current death row inmates and the capital murder trial of student ...
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Idaho plans to bring back firing squad as ‘preferred method of execution’
If passed, it will become the only state in the Union to designate firing squads as its preferred method of execution. And it’s a method not used in the US for more than a decade. “This bill is ...
Franco's victims' families recover remains from mass grave 85 years on
Josefina Fortea, 92, was seven when her father Jose, a farm labourer, faced a firing squad sent by General Francisco Franco. While she hardly knew him, receiving his remains 85 years later has brought ...
How British grandmother who has spent 12 years on death row awaiting execution could be spared from death this year
Lindsay Sandiford, who was sentenced to death in 2013 after trying to smuggle cocaine into Bali, could gain her freedom if ...
Indonesia prepares to send home an ailing French national on death row
Indonesian authorities are set to return an ailing French national who has been on death row in the Southeast Asian country, ...
South Carolina puts inmate Marion Bowman Jr. to death in state’s third execution since September
South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate to be put to death since September as the state goes through a ...