Executed
Shot
Shot adjective - Varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles.
Both words in one sentence
- Staged Shooting: A character is apparently shot or executed, but the entire shooting was staged.
Source: Trope Distinctions / A to C -
Next day three Soviet infiltrators were shot as the last persons executed in Finland.
Source: Shot at Dawn -
When Artemus Gordon is about to be executed, he asks to be shot in the heart because he's secretly wearing a bulletproof vest.
Source: Last Request
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