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Haunting photographs of people before their execution:

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1. Public execution of a child molester in Yemen. Image
2. Sgt. Leonard Siffleet moments before being executed by a Japanese officer in WWII. Image
3. German commando captured in American uniform is prepared for execution, December 23, 1944. Image
4. 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. Image
5. Chinese guerrilla fighter Cheng Benhua smiling moments before execution by the Japanese. She was 24. Image
6. Chinese women about to be executed for drug smuggling, facing their last moments with a smile. Image
7. Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Szálasi is given the last rites before being hanged as a collaborator, 1946. Image
8. The last Jew in Vinnitsa, 1941. Image
9. Jack Sullivan, who murdered railroad officer John Bradbury during a gunfight, is seen smoking a cigar a few moments before he took his last breath in the lethal gas execution chamber, 1936. Image
10. Execution by cannon, Shiraz, Iran, 1890s. Image
11. A Liberian army soldier stands ready to execute a former cabinet minister following the 1980 coup. Image
12. Nigerian man smiling at firing squad. Image
13. Mexican rebel Fortino Samano moments before his execution by a firing squad during the Mexican Revolution, 1916. Image
14. Execution of a German Communist in Munich, 1919. Image
15. A woman condemned to die of starvation in pre-Soviet Mongolia. Image
16. Rudolf Höss, the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, is hanged next to the crematorium at the camp, 1947. Image
17. 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. Image
18. 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. Image
19. Different expressions of six Polish civilians moments before death by firing squad, 1939. Image
20. A prison guard feeding a female drug dealer some lychees the night before her execution. Image
21. Georges Blind, a member of the French resistance, smiling at a German firing squad, 1944. Image
22. Partisan before being hanged by the Nazis, shouting: "Death to fascism, freedom to people." Image
23. The first picture of the electric chair being used on a person. Her name was Ruth Snyder. Image
24. 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. Image
25. German General Anton Dostler before his execution by a firing squad in Italy, December 1945. Image
26. German commandos captured in American uniform are prepared for execution, 1944. Image
27. Japanese troops using prisoners of war for target practice, 1942. Image
28. Rainey Bethea walks up the stairs with guards for his public execution in August 14, 1936 in Owensboro, KY. Image
29. Russian spy laughing through his execution in Finland, 1942. Image
30. An Iranian man smiles as he is about to be executed by hanging from a crane.
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