Editing Execution by firing squad (section)

===Mexico===
[[File:Edouard Manet 022.jpg|thumb|right|''Execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico'', by [[Édouard Manet]], 1868]]
{{Main|Capital punishment in Mexico}}
During the [[Mexican Independence War]], several Independentist generals (such as [[Miguel Hidalgo]] and [[José María Morelos]]) were executed by Spanish firing squads.<ref name="knownHist">Known history of the Mexican Revolution</ref> Also, Emperor [[Maximilian I of Mexico]] and two of his generals were executed in the Cerro de las Campanas after the Juaristas took control of Mexico in 1867.<ref name="knownHist"/> [[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, especially during the [[Mexican Revolution]] and the [[Cristero War]]. An example of that is in the attempted execution of [[Wenseslao Moguel]], who survived being shot ten times—once at point-blank range—because he fought under [[Pancho Villa]].<ref name="knownHist"/> After these events, the death sentence was imposed for fewer types of crimes in Article 22 of the [[Mexican Constitution]]; however, in 2005 capital punishment was constitutionally prohibited,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cndh.org.mx/noticia/dia-mundial-contra-la-pena-de-muerte |title=Día Mundial contra la Pena de Muerte – CNDH |access-date=2023-04-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://info4.juridicas.unam.mx/ijure/fed/9/23.htm?s |title=Artículo 22 – CONSTITUCION POLITICA DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS |access-date=2008-11-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402114120/http://info4.juridicas.unam.mx/ijure/fed/9/23.htm?s |archive-date=2015-04-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and there has not been a judicial execution since 1961.<ref name=BBC2>{{Citation|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7866811.stm|title=Death penalty debate grows in Mexico|author=Gibbs, Stephen|work=[[BBC News]]|date=4 February 2009|access-date=2023-04-05|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211101642/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7866811.stm|archive-date=11 February 2009}}</ref>