A group of soldiers or paramilitaries detailed to execute someone, usually by rifle shot, or to discharge their weapons ceremonially at a funeral
military detachment assigned to fire a salute at a burial of an honoured person or to execute a condemned person
a squad formed to fire volleys at a military funeral or to carry out a military execution
A firing squad is a group of soldiers who are ordered to shoot and kill a person who has been found guilty of committing a crime. He was executing by firing squad. a group of soldiers whose duty is to punish prisoners by shooting and killing them