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Italy, Mediterranean Theatre of World War II ** Louis Till: Charles H. Jefferies July 5, 1945 John T. Jones Henry W. Nelson Tom E. Gordon July 10, 1945 European Theater ** Harold Crabtree July 31, 1945 Philippines: Firing squad Cornelius Thomas August 1, 1945 Schofield Barracks, Hawai'i: Hanging Jesse D. Boston Firing squad Robert Davidson ...
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. [1] [2]
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 ...
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] After their demands to be transferred to a Prisoner of War camp were denied, the four women were executed [2] by firing squad on 18 January 1945 and their bodies burnt and buried in the nearby forest. Djendi was declared "Mort pour la France" and posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre avec Palme and the Medal of the Resistance.
In 2010, Utah carried out the only firing squad execution of the last 50 years. But states like South Carolina are pushing to reinstate the practice. "Ladies and gentlemen, like it or not, it's a ...
FILE - A chair sits in the execution chamber at the Utah State Prison on June 18, 2010, after Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad in Draper, Utah.
Pierrette Denise Louin (1 October 1920 – 18 January 1945) was a French heroine of World War II who served in the Special Operations Executive and was executed by the Nazi government. [ 1 ] She was born in Oran, Algeria, where she joined the "Corps Féminin des Transmissions" (Women's Signal Corps) set up by General Lucien Merlin, and known as ...