War and Conflict The Vietnam War. pic: June 1975. Nguyen Tu Sang, Saigon, Vietnam. A man stands on a chair, convicted of armed robbery as an official reads his sentence from a platform, as communist forces prepare to act as a firing squad and carry out t

War and Conflict, The Vietnam War, pic: June 1975, Nguyen Tu Sang, Saigon, Vietnam, A man stands on a chair, convicted of armed robbery as an official reads his sentence from a platform, as communist forces prepare to act as a firing squad and carry out the sentence of death (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)