Disturbing photographs of people before their execution
- Public execution of a child molester in Yemen
- Chinese guerrilla fighter Cheng Benhua smiling moments before execution by the Japanese. She was 24.
- Sgt. Leonard Siffleet moments before being executed by a Japanese officer in WWII.
- A Liberian army soldier stands ready to execute a former cabinet minister following the 1980 coup.
- Execution by cannon, Shiraz, Iran, 1890s.
- A woman condemned to die of starvation in pre-Soviet Mongolia.
- Chinese women about to be executed for drug smuggling, facing their last moments with a smile.
- Partisan before being hanged by the Nazis, shouting: "Death to fascism, freedom to people."
- Execution of a German Communist in Munich, 1919.
- Photo of Muhammed al-Maghrabi, convicted of raping and killing 3-year-old Rana Almatari, screaming just before he was publicly executed by being shot at close range with an AK-47.
- Georges Blind, a member of the French resistance, smiling at a German firing squad, 1944.
- Rudolf Höss, the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, is hanged next to the crematorium at the camp, 1947.
- A man convicted of murder imprisoned in a wooden cage on a street in China. He was left to die of thirst, starvation, and exposure, circa 1930.
- Japanese troops using prisoners of war for target practice, 1942.
- Different expressions of six Polish civilians moments before death by firing squad, 1939.
- Photo from 2017 of an Iraqi officer named Abu Bakir al-Samarayi. The picture shows him with a defiant, fearless expression on his face moments before an ISIS militant executed him.
- Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Szálasi is given the last rites before being hanged as a collaborator, 1946.
- Joe Arridy was a mentally challenged man who was wrongfully accused and arrested for murder and rape. This is a photo of him giving his toy trains to a fellow inmate preceding his execution, 1939.
- A prison guard feeding a female drug dealer some lychees the night before her execution.
- An Iranian man smiles as he is about to be executed by hanging from a crane.
- German General Anton Dostler before his execution by a firing squad in Italy, December 1945.
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