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It was gratuitous. This is unlike other situations with worse consequences like death, such as when an explosive goes off-course or a target is misidentified.
The examples I had in mind were also gratuitous. This is an example of what I was referring to.
Or to use an example from the Iraq war, consider that at the time standard operating procedure from the insurgents was to behead captives on camera.