The method used to carry out the sentence is execution by shooting.

The primary punishment for theft according to this law was execution by shooting.

He was sentenced to death and his execution by shooting was announced in July 1987.

Execution by shooting is a fairly old practice.

But it was not just execution by shootings.

They died from starvation, disease, torture, hard labor and executions by shooting, hanging or gassing.

Execution by shooting is a form of capital punishment whereby an executed person is shot by one or more firearms.

Povenets is 19 km from Sandarmokh, the site of mass execution by shooting and burial of victims of Soviet political repressions.

Some women would suddenly "give the most terrible shrieks while undressing, or tear their hair, or scream like maniacs"; the Sonderkommando immediately took them away for execution by shooting.

Methods of execution include Electric chair, the Execution by firing squad or other sorts of Execution by shooting, stoning in Islamic countries, the gas chamber, hanging, and lethal injection.

At the urging of the Mormon population, the Nevada Legislature passed a statute in 1910 that became effective in January 1911, which allowed condemned prisoners to choose between execution by shooting or hanging.

Although the Ministry of Justice has studied other methods including hanging and lethal injection since the early 1990s, execution by shooting (performed by local bailiffs or military policemen) is the only execution method used in the ROC to date (including military executions).

Blokhin's most infamous act was the April 1940 execution by shooting of over 6,000 Polish prisoners interned in the Ostashkov prisoner of war camp, mostly military and police officers who had been captured following the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, as part of the extended Katyn massacre.