The term is used to define the shooting death of a person by firing a gun fire. It is a way of applying the death penalty, in which the convicted person is placed in front of a wall, to then receive a volley of bullets, fired by a firing squad. This was a way of killing legally, which was maintained for many centuries, especially in those crimes that had to be tried by the military justice.
One of the characteristics of the executions is that the execution can be carried out against a group of people, as happened after the “May 2 uprising”, an event that occurred in the city of Madrid (Spain) and that represented the beginning towards the Spanish war of independence.
It can then be said that the execution is an execution, which is carried out either by a private person or by a group of soldiers. In this case, the prisoner dies from damage to vital organs, hemorrhages and damage to the central nervous system. However, a shot at a short and certain distance to the back of the neck can cause total unconsciousness, the method may take a little longer in those executions carried out by a platoon, since the soldiers shoot at a greater distance, which causes them to have less accuracy in aiming.
Many of the countries that maintain the death penalty consider that the people deserving of such punishment are those who commit serious crimes, such as rapes, murders. Similarly, war crimes such as treason, sabotage or espionage are punished by shooting.
