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Does the following passage contain a fused sentence error?

On the day of his execution, he and his friends were lined up before a firing squad the soldiers were about to execute them.

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Yes, the following passage contains a fused sentence error. The two independent clauses "On the day of his execution, he and his friends were lined up before a firing squad" and "the soldiers were about to execute them" are improperly joined without any punctuation or coordinating conjunction.
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