Eli5: Why would the condemned often be blindfolded before execution by firing squad?

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Was it to make the prisoner more docile or for the benefit of the firing sauad themselves?

(I know this is morbid, sorry. Research for a novel.)

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they also put a bag over the head of those about to be hanged, beheaded…

but I don’t think they did for those executed by guillotine though once placed in the machine they are facing straight down.

not only is it for dehumanizing the victim but also to prevent communication muffling shouts and preventing blinking code???

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