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Firing Squads
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A public execution - probably of a federal officer by Villa's men. These gruesome events were well attended by people with a morbid fascination for the final agonies of their fellow human beings.
One of three executions performed in 1916 in Juarez which were photographed by an enterprising American photo journalist, who made a lot of money selling postcards of such grim scenes. The victim in this photo was one Juan Aguilar. The person who commanded the firing squad was Captain Javier J. Valle, and the photographer was Walter H. Horne. Aguilar was the second to die in the triple execution.
The first of three in a triple execution performed in 1916 at the train station in Juarez. The name of the victim is Francisco Rojas, who was a villista labor organizer. He and his collaborators were killed by carrancista forces for being supporters of Villa's outlawed movement. The photographer, Horne, described the gruesome details almost gleefully in a letter to his his wife. “The bullets went right through the man's body," he wrote. "Observe the dust from the wall behind him."
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