Execution by firing squad

The Geneva Convention was created to protect the rights of prisoners of war after World War 1. Its official name is the Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. The Geneva Convention was signed on the 27th of July 1929 in Geneva, Switzerland. The Convention was created by the Red Cross as after the First World War as they found The Hague Conventions, which had been signed pre-war had failed due to many loopholes and lack of precision. 47 countries signed the Convention those…

The Death Penalty Throughout history, people have condoned capital punishment and believe it to be a proper punishment for certain crimes. However, like with anything, there has been increasing scrutiny behind the death penalty. Capital punishment is the legal and politically correct way to refer to the death penalty. The death penalty has been around for thousands of years and has been performed in many different ways. Throughout time, the laws and rules surrounding this form of punishment have…

the rebel government. They were imprisoned in the fort, under Riel’s orders. Thomas Scott, an English-speaking Protestant taking part in the opposition, was put on trial for his insulting remarks towards Riel, and was later killed off by a Riel’s firing squad. Riel is remembered for this horrific murder that he committed to, and is the greatest reason he is called a traitor to Canada. After the cold-blooded murder of Thomas Scott, Riel was exiled to the United States but this wasn’t the end to…

Life never got any easier due to the constant threat of something as simple as blinking could get you sent to the death camps, or just put to death on the spot by firing squad. That didn’t mean people didn’t try to revolt. Multiple resistance movements happened throughout World War II in German occupied territories. Some were successful in small victories, while others were completely and utterly annihilated. If not…

The people were driven to the edge of town…The sergeant closed his notebook and turned away. The firing started” (Wilhelm 66-67). As the soldiers invaded the village, Marjory Loomis, in an effort to save her baby, jumped on top of her. Shockingly, they shoot both Loomis and the baby without remorse. As all the buildings were being burned, the sergeant forced innocent people to their death by a fire squad. Wilhelm used this brutal scene to make you believe that when people in power make ignorant…

On the 18th of September 2014, I went to watch the adapted theatre production of “Private Peaceful” at the Queens theatre, Barnstable. The production that was originally a novel written by Michael Morpurgo but Simon Reade adapted and directed the theatre production. The theatre company was called: Fiery Angel and scamp theatre; the actor for the solo role of ‘Tommo’ and 21 other roles, was characterized by Andy Daniel. He did an exceptionally good job and skilfully brought all the characters to…

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a man who stood up for his beliefs even until death. He left us an example of what a true Christian person is like. He lived in the time of World War II and the Holocaust. And because of his involvement as a spy during the World War II, opposing the Nazi government, and maintaining a leadership role in the Confessing Church, Dietrich Bonhoeffer is remembered as a very important individual in the fight against human injustice. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born on…

teachings of the leaders of their faith, and found it at variance with their limited understanding, they arose to perpetrate such unseemly acts.... Consider Moses! Armed with the rod of celestial dominion, adorned with the white hand of Divine knowledge, and proceeding from the Paran of the love of God, and wielding the serpent of power and everlasting majesty, He shone forth from the Sinai of light upon the world. He summoned all the peoples and kindreds of the earth to the kingdom of eternity,…