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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Sorry for hijacking the thread, but I am wondering. I heard that the firing squad has only 1 live bullet loaded, and the rest of the guns have blanks. The people firing the guns don’t know which gun has the live round, which is said to give them a plausible deniability if it kept them up at night.

Any truth to that?

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