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Italy, Mediterranean Theatre of World War II ** Wiley Harris, Jr. May 26, 1944 Shepton Mallet, United Kingdom, European Theater ** Alex F. Miranda May 30, 1944 Firing squad: Robert L. Donnelly May 31, 1944 Italy, Mediterranean Theatre of World War II ** Hanging Eliga Brinson August 11, 1944 Shepton Mallet, United Kingdom, European Theater **
The United States Army carried out 10 executions by firing squad during World War II from 1942 to 1945. [62] The United States Army took over Shepton Mallet prison in Somerset, U.K. in 1942, renaming it Disciplinary Training Center No.1 and housing troops convicted of offences across Europe. There were eighteen executions at the prison, two of ...
The Skourvoula executions (Greek: εκτελέσεις στα Σκούρβουλα) refer to the mass execution by firing squad of 36 civilians, of which 22 were women, at the village of Skourvoula in Crete, Greece by German Wehrmacht forces on 14 August 1944 during World War II.
Edward Donald Slovik (February 18, 1920 – January 31, 1945) was a United States Army soldier during World War II and the only American soldier to be court-martialled and executed for desertion since the American Civil War. [1] [2] Although over 21,000 American soldiers were given varying sentences for desertion during World War II, including ...
[2] Szenes was arrested at the Hungarian border by Hungarian gendarmes. She was imprisoned and tortured, but refused to reveal details of her mission. She was eventually tried and executed by firing squad. [2] She is regarded as a national hero in Israel but has largely been forgotten in her birthplace of Hungary according to The Guardian. [3]
Petacci had a long-standing relationship with Mussolini while he was married to Rachele Mussolini.Petacci was 28 years younger than Mussolini. [5] They met for the first time in April 1932 when Mussolini, driving with an aide to Ostia, overtook a car occupied by the twenty-year-old Petacci and family members.
During the American Civil War, 433 of the 573 men executed were shot dead by a firing squad: 186 of the 267 executed by the Union Army, and 247 of the 306 executed by the Confederate Army. Today, execution by shooting is allowed in the US states of Idaho , Oklahoma , South Carolina and Utah , as well as Mississippi.
Pages in category "People executed by Nazi Germany by firing squad" The following 170 pages are in this category, out of 170 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .