How was the Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan, Margaretha Geertruida also known as "Mata Hari" executed?

Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod ( 7 August 1876 – 15 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. Many people still believe she was innocent and condemned only because the French Army needed a scapegoat.

Margaretha was executed by a firing squad of 12 French soldiers just before dawn on 15 October 1917. She was 41. According to an eyewitness account by British reporter Henry Wales, she was not bound and refused a blindfold. She defiantly blew a kiss to the firing squad.