Thread by @VertigoWarrior

Disturbing photographs of people before their execution ~ A Thread🧵

1. Public execution of a child molester in Yemen 🇾🇪

2. Stjepan Filipović was a Yugoslav partisan fighter who shouted "Death to fascism, freedom to the people!" before being hanged by the Nazis in 1942

3. Execution of a German Communist in Munich, 1919

4. Chinese women about to be executed for drug smuggling, facing their last moments with a smile

5. Chinese guerrilla fighter Cheng Benhua smiling moments before execution by the Japanese. She was 24

6. Photo of Muhammed al-Maghrabi, convicted of r*p!ng and k!lling 3-year-old Rana Almatari, screaming just before he was publicly executed by being shot at close range with an AK-47.

7. 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

8. Sgt. Leonard Siffleet moments before being executed by a Japanese officer in WWII

9. A Liberian army soldier stands ready to execute a former cabinet minister following the 1980 coup

10. Execution by cannon, Shiraz, Iran, 1890s

11. A woman condemned to die of starvation in pre-Soviet Mongolia

12. Georges Blind, a member of the French resistance, smiling at a German firing squad, 1944

13. Rudolf Höss, the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, is hanged next to the crematorium at the camp, 1947

14. 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.

15. Japanese troops using prisoners of war for target practice, 1942

16. Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Szálasi is given the last rites before being hanged as a collaborator, 1946.

17. A prison guard feeding a female drug dealer some lychees the night before her execution

18. Russian spy laughing through his execution in Finland, 1942

19. An Iranian man smiles as he is about to be executed by hanging from a crane.

20. Mexican rebel Fortino Samano moments before his execution by a firing squad during the Mexican Revolution, 1916.

21. German commandos captured in American uniform are prepared for execution, 1944

22. German General Anton Dostler before his execution by a firing squad in Italy, December 1945

23. News footage from 2014 shows American journalist James Foley moments before his execution in August 2014, reportedly in response to American airstrikes in Iraq. He became the first American citizen killed by ISIS

24. Footage filmed on a cell phone shows Saddam Hussein moments before his execution in 2006