23 People executed by firing squad

Álvaro Alcalá Galiano y Vildósola, conde del Real Aprecio was a Spanish painter and decorative artist.

Pablo Cueto Amorsolo was a Filipino painter. He was the younger brother of the Philippine National Artist Fernando Amorsolo.

José Aranguren was a Republican general during the Spanish Civil War. From Ferrol, he commanded the Guardia Civil. After the Nationalist victory, he was court-martialed and sentenced to death, being executed by firing squad in Barcelona.

Juan María de la Cruz, S.C.I. was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest.

Maria Dimadi was a member of the National Liberation Front (EAM) during the Axis occupation of Greece. She acted as a spy for the resistance at the German garrison of Agrinio, providing crucial information on German maneuvers and undermining the Axis war effort. Dimadi was executed by Greek collaborationists on 31 August 1944.

Josef Johannes "Jopie" Fourie, usually known as Jopie Fourie, was a scout and dispatch rider during the Boer War. He was executed by firing squad during the Rebellion of 1914–1915 against General Louis Botha, the then Prime Minister of South Africa.

Costas Georgiou was an ethnic Greek Cypriot, British mercenary executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial for activities during the civil war phase of the Angolan War of Independence.

Konstantinas Kleščinskis was a military officer who served in the Imperial Russian Army, Polish Army and Lithuanian Armed Forces. A graduate of the Nicholas General Staff Academy, he fought in the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. He was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of Novogeorgievsk in August 1915. After his release, he briefly served in the Polish Army before joining the Lithuanian Army in May 1919. He fought in the Lithuanian–Soviet War and was the Chief of the General Staff of the Lithuanian Army from August 1920 to April 1921. After retirement from active duty, he was recruited by the NKVD to spy for the Soviet Union. He was found guilty of espionage and executed by Lithuania on 1 June 1927.

Damian Kratzenberg was a highschool teacher who became head of the Volksdeutsche Bewegung, a pro-Nazi political group, in Luxembourg during World War II. He was executed after the war for collaboration with the Nazis.

Giovanni Livraghi was an Italian patriot, who took part in various enterprises of Giuseppe Garibaldi, being part of the Italian legion which he founded in Montevideo in 1843 and participating, as a result, in the defense of the Roman Republic.

Nusratullo Maksum also known as Nusratullo Lutfullayev, was a Tajikstani Soviet politician. He was a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner. From March 1931 to January 1934 he served on the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union as the representative of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic. He was executed by firing squad during the Great Purge. After the independence of Tajikistan from the Soviet Union, Maksum was featured on the 200 Tajikistani somoni banknote.

Knud Børge Martinsen was a Danish officer and the third commander of Frikorps Danmark.

Boris Pavlovich Pozern was a Soviet politician and statesman and member of the Troika of the NKVD of the Soviet Union.

José Joaquín Puello de Castro was a general and government minister from the Dominican Republic. He and his brothers, Gabino and Eusebio, were the only prominent black Dominicans in the Dominican War of Independence.

Roberto Girón Mendoza and Pedro Castillo were two Guatemalan men convicted of murder and executed, with their deaths by firing squad occurring on 13 September 1996. It was the first official firing squad execution in Guatemala since 1983. It was also the first execution to occur in Latin America, with the exception of Guyana and the Caribbean, in a span of over ten years.

Sylvain Salnave was a Haitian general who served as the President of Haïti from 1867 to 1869. He was elected president after he led the overthrow of President Fabre Geffrard. During his term there were constant civil wars between the various factions. Eventually, he was overthrown in a coup by his eventual successor Nissage Saget, and Salnave was tried for treason and executed.

Fritz Paul Schmenkel was a German communist and resistance fighter against Nazism, who fought with the Soviet partisans in German-occupied Byelorussia during World War II.

The Souain corporals affair was an incident where four corporals in the French Army were shot by firing squad as an example to the rest of their companies during the First World War. The executions, which occurred in the vicinity of Souain on 17 March 1915, are considered to be the most egregious and most publicized military injustice during World War I in France. The events inspired the 1935 anti-war novel Paths of Glory by Humphrey Cobb, later adapted for film by Stanley Kubrick.

Aleksei Ivanovich Stetskii was a Russian Soviet politician, journalist and official and propagandist of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

Hryhoriy Mykytovych Vasiura was originally a senior lieutenant in the Red Army who was captured during the Nazi invasion of the USSR in 1941 and subsequently volunteered for service in the Schutzmannschaft and the Waffen-SS. Vasiura's wartime activities were not fully revealed until the mid-1980s, when he was convicted as a war criminal by a Soviet military court and executed in 1987 for his role in the Khatyn massacre.

Dun Mikiel Xerri was a Maltese patriot. He was baptised Mikael Archangelus Joseph in the parish church of Zebbug on 30 September 1737, the son of Bartholomew Xerri and his wife Anne. Xerri studied at different universities in Europe. He lived under both the Knights of St. John during their time in Malta and the French when they took over the Maltese Islands. He was involved in an unsuccessful revolt to overthrow French rule under Napoleon Bonaparte for which he, together with other locals, was executed on 17 January 1799 at the age of 61.

Xu Jishen was a member of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. He was born in Lu'an, Anhui Province. In 1919, he participated in the May Fourth Movement. In 1920, he went to Anqing. In April 1921, he joined the Communist Youth League of China. In 1923, Xu left Anhui for Shanghai, enrolling in Shanghai University. In 1924, Xu entered the Whampoa Military Academy and joined the Communist Party of China. He quickly rose through the ranks from platoon commander to deputy company commander to company commander, ultimately rising to the rank of major. After the Zhongshan Warship Incident, he was made a battalion commander under Ye Ting. During his participation in the Northern Expedition, he was wounded due to the actions of Xia Douyin.