Saddam’s boyz liked to bind their political dissenter to a chair along with a C-4 vest, make all the remotely involved people watch, and explode the vest leaving nothing but pink vapor in a few hundred foot spray pattern.
They also tossed enemies into industrial paper shredders feet first, which must be excruiatingly painful.
A usual practice in North Korea is to make the extended family watch the execution of the dissident before shipping the entire extended family to the concentration camps. Where they are usually separated starved, beaten, raped or even executed for the slightest offenses or starve to death.
Oh and this also includes the children.
That method of execution seems rather tame compared to some of the other stuff we heard about (plastic shredders, vats of acid, hungry dogs, etc).
I was in a hotel room in Greece, watching television. I don’t know what station it was, but there were many men who resembled Saddam Hussein (mustaches, dark skin, big eyebrows), all wearing military fatigues. They were outside and a man wearing a white shirt with a pocket and khakis was pushed to the front of these men. They put what looked like a pack of cigarettes in his pocket with wires coming from it. They all backed away, getting out of the way so that this man was the only one in front of the camera. All of a sudden, there was smoke and he was gone. I had just witnessed an execution on public television. It happened before I knew what was going on. It was truly heinous and stayed with me a very long time.
That is better than the huge paper shredder they and their dear old dad liked to feed their enemy’s through feet first.