On this date three years ago — or at least, so says the date in the camera’s viewfinder — a female spy was “tried” and “executed” in Iraq by al Qaeda affiliated terrorists for spying.

Warning: This is (by design) a graphic and chilling video. I have little information beyond the assertion of the video posters as to its veracity. Whether or not it may be relied upon factually or dated reliably, it’s a gut-twisting video of a woman being shot in the head.

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A longer version is on a very not-safe-for-work site here.

On this day..

• 1733: Henry Neal, for shoes and breeches
• 1726: Thomas Craven and William Anderson, reluctant autobiographers
• 1696: Thomas Randal, obstinate
• 2015: Robert Ladd, "let's ride"
• 1802: Joseph Wall
• 1745: Eve, her smoke visible throughout the country
• 1879: John Achey and William Merrick, the first hanged in Indianapolis
• 1253: P. Morret, poor guesser
• 1913: Edward Hopwood, clumsy suicide
• Daily Double: Century-Old English Legal Novelties
• 1912: Albert Wolter, white slaver
• 1869: Chauncey W. Millard, candy man
• 1810: Pedro Domingo Murillo, for Bolivian independence
• 1547: Not Thomas Howard, because Henry VIII died first
• Themed Set: The English Reformation