Death squad

A death squad is an armed paramilitary group formed to take the lives or life of a particular person(s), especially political opponents.

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Italian soldiers shooting Slovenian hostages. July 31, 1942
Cristero rebels publicly hanged on telegraph poles in Jalisco, Mexico. The bodies often remained on the poles until the pueblo or town renounced public religious practice.
Quantrill's 1863 raid burned the town of Lawrence and killed 164 defenders.
A billboard serving as a reminder of one of many massacres that occurred during the civil war
Esquadrão da Morte
President Rodrigo Duterte
Einsatzgruppen murder Jews in Ivanhorod, Ukraine, 1942
A group of British intelligence agents (reputedly either the Cairo Gang or Igoe Gang) formed to counter IRA actions during the Irish War of Independence.
A group of Black and Tans in Dublin, April 1921.

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