Guillotine
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A guillotine is an apparatus designed for effectively carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled blade suspended at the top. The cond
The guillotine used in Luxembourg between 1798 and 1821
A replica of the Halifax Gibbet on its original site in Halifax, West Yorkshire, in 2008
The original Maiden, introduced in 1564 and used until 1716, now on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh
Portrait of Joseph-Ignace Guillotin after whom the guillotine was named
Hamida Djandoubi
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Hamida Djandoubi was a Tunisian criminal who was executed by guillotine in France after having been convicted of the kidnapping, torture and murder of Élisabeth Bousquet, a 21-year-old woman whom he h
Guillotine
…method of judicial execution until the abolition of capital punishment in 1981. The last person to be executed by a government via guillotine was Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian murderer, on 10 September 1977 in France. The use of beheading machines in Europe long predates such use during the French Revolution in…
Djandoubi being escorted to his trial at the Cour d'assises d'Aix-en-Provence, February 1977