Pictures at an execution

When secretly shot footage of Saddam Hussein's hanging leaked online, news outlets found themselves with gruesome choices to make.

On a former military base in north Baghdad in the early hours of December 30, 2006, masked hangmen prepared to execute Saddam Hussein. The ex-Iraqi dictator was sharply dressed, his hair neatly parted to one side. He declined a hood so they wrapped the cloth around his neck instead. Two of the men led their […]