Circumcision was used by Pakistani soldiers to identify Hindus during Bangladesh’s War of Independence (1971).

Prince Norodom Sihanouk (2nd-r), President of the Royal Government of the National Union of Cambodia (GRUNC), is welcomed by fighters of the FUNC-GRUNC-FAPLNC (Forces Armées Populaires de Libération Nationale du Cambodge) in the Angkor forest maquis on April 19, 1973.

The Šķēde Beach massacre in Latvia, December 1941

April 12, 1945 - Dwight D. Eisenhower watches as survivors of Ohrdruf demonstrate torture methods used at the camp

British soldiers congratulating Imperial Japanese troops on their recent victory over the Chinese Kuomintang. Shanghai International Settlement, China, 22 November 1937.

China Punishment 1907 Nthree Women in The Cangue Or Collar of Wood As Punishment Shanghai

A girl gets married, July 22nd, 1941. The girl next door, Anne Frank, is nearby watching. It is the only time Anne Frank has been captured on film.

The scold’s bridle, a terrifying and haunting tool of public humiliation and punishment, first emerged in 16th Century CE, Germany. This cruel device was primarily used to punish individuals, particularly women, who were deemed to be excessively outspoken, troublesome, or disruptive to social norm

Exotic Dutch dancer Mata Hari who lived in France and was executed as a German spy in World War One, pictured in Paris practicing her Javanese Temple dance to music played by an Indian orchestra on sitars

Notice the carefree smile of the good-looking girl at the front. her smile contrasts with the other’s grim faces. She is Jenny Wanda Barkmann, May 24 in Gdańsk. A feisty 24-year-old Hamburg lass.

June 1995, South Korea. The devil's smile at Sampoong mall tragedy

A frustrated American GI tries to extract information from a Vietcong suspect (1960s)

A man is escorted off the UCLA campus by an LAPD officer for taking part in student protests against the Vietnam War (1970s)

Meet Kazuo Odachi, a living testament to the harrowing era of World War II. At 97 years old, he stands as the last surviving kamikaze pilot, a poignant reminder of a time when young lives were sacrificed in the name of war.

Japanese General Hisao Tani, orchestrator of the "R@pe of Nanking" is executed by a pistol in 1947.

Marcus Wayne Chenault Jr., who killed the mother of Martin Luther King Jr. at a Sunday service in Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta in 1974. He was arrested for Alberta's murder and the murder of church deacon Edward Boykin.

Nazi Soldiers at the Burning of Lidice in Czechoslovakia, 1942 As punishment for the murder of two Nazi officers, the entire male population of this mining village in Czechoslovakia were shot, the women and children were deported to concentration camps and the was burnt to the ground.

WWII German Army Helmet with blood residue and seepage of medication found inside helmet.

Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945) and others captured with him, including his mistress, Clara Petacci, hang by their feet from a filling station after their execution at Giulino di Mezzegra, near Lake Como, Italy, 28th April 1945.

Disabled children of the sort executed in the tens of thousands under the Nazis' largely eugenics-inspired Aktion T4 involuntary euthanasia program, at Schönbrunn Psychiatric Hospital, 1934.

Young guerrillas wear grenades at their belts, preparing to fight the encroaching Viet Minh forces in the Red River Delta, northern Vietnam, 1954.

D-Day, Robert Capa, 1944.

Muhammad Ali Vs. Sonny Liston, 1965.

Systematic killing of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I, 1915 - 1923. Also known as Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and by Armenians as the Great Crime.

Exploring the use of the garrote in executions.