Which emperor was shot by a firing squad in 1867?
Execution by firing squad the courthouse after being convicted of failing to report their infection of plague to the authorities. During the Mexican Independence War, several Independentist generals (such as Miguel Hidalgo and José María Morelos) were executed by Spanish firing squads. Also, Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico and several of his generals were executed in the Cerro de las Campanas after the Juaristas took control of Mexico in 1867. Manet immortalized the execution in a now-famous painting, "The Execution of Emperor Maximilian"; he painted at least three versions. Firing-squad execution was the most common way to carry out a death sentence in Mexico,
Execution by firing squad of the 267 executed by the Union Army and 247 of the 306 executed by the Confederate Army) were shot by a firing squad. During World War II, Army Pvt. Edward "Eddie" Slovik was the first soldier executed by firing squad for desertion since the American Civil War. In 1913, Andriza Mircovich became the first and only inmate in Nevada to be executed by shooting. After the warden of Nevada State Prison was unable to find five men to form a firing squad, a shooting machine was built to carry out Mircovich's execution. John W. Deering allowed an electrocardiogram recording