A firing squad was a group of soldiers detailed to shoot a condemned person.
In the War Lords' simulation of World War II, the British Army found the Second Doctor guilty of espionage. Smythe used his spectacles to convince the jury to find them guilty and the Doctor was to be executed by firing squad at dawn. (TV: The War Games)
Kaled Major Brogan was killed by a firing squad when Lady Calcula framed him for her crime of murdering her own husband Colonel Nasgard and sister-in-law Tashek to keep her affair with Councillor Quested which spawned Davros a secret. (AUDIO: Innocence) In the earlier days of their war with the Thals, Kaleds used to execute prisoners with firing squads before taking to hanging to conserve ammunition. (AUDIO: Corruption; TV: Genesis of the Daleks)
Silurian Commander Vastra sought to get the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond, Nasreen Chaudhry, and Mo Northover destroyed by firing squad; only to be stopped by the colony's leader Eldane. (TV: Cold Blood)
Sontaran Field-Major Thurr tried to get the Fifth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka, Turlough, and Nyssa killed by firing squad; only to fail each time because of the Doctor's cunning and the attacks of the Witch Guard on Samur. (AUDIO: Heroes of Sontar)
Rassilon, threatened by the Twelfth Doctor's presence on Gallifrey and still desperate for information on the Hybrid, ordered first troops and then the High Council to make contact with the Doctor. However, the Doctor was only willing to speak directly to Rassilon himself. Eventually, Rassilon was forced out into the Drylands to confront him. There, the Doctor held him alone responsible for the crimes of the Last Great Time War, and for his treatment in his confession dial. Rassilon tried to have a firing squad execute the unarmed Doctor, who ordered him to "get off my planet." However, the squad purposefully missed due to their great respect for the Doctor and seeing Rassilon's real colours. (TV: Hell Bent)
During the Night of the Long Knives on 29 and 30 June 1934, Heinrich Himmler instructed a firing squad to execute condemned members of the Sturmabteilung. Two thousand people were sentenced to death. When the purge ended, the firing squad suffered a mental breakdown. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus)
On the Inferno Earth prisoners sentenced under military law according to the terms of the Defence of the Republic Act of 1943 were executed by firing squad. (TV: Inferno)