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Guillotine. A guillotine ( / ˈɡɪlətiːn, - loʊ -/ GHIH-lə-teen, -loh-) is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled blade suspended at the top. The condemned person is secured with a pillory at the bottom of the frame, holding the ...
Proposing a painless method for executions, inspiring the guillotine. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin ( French: [ʒozɛf iɲas ɡijɔtɛ̃]; 28 May 1738 – 26 March 1814) was a French physician, politician, and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out executions in France, as a less painful method of execution than ...
Marie-Louise Giraud. Marie-Louise Giraud (17 November 1903 – 30 July 1943) was one of the last women to be executed in France. Giraud was convicted in Vichy France and was guillotined for having performed 27 abortions in the Cherbourg area on 30 July 1943. Her story was dramatized in the 1988 film Story of Women directed by Claude Chabrol .
Hans Conrad Leipelt. Renée Lévy. Friedrich Lorenz. Marinus van der Lubbe. Lübeck martyrs.
V. François-Nicolas Vincent. Categories: People executed during the French Revolution. People executed by France by guillotine. Publicly executed people. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé. Hans Vollenweider. Categories: People executed by decapitation. Guillotine. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
Decapitation is the total separation of the head from the body. Such an injury is invariably fatal to humans and most other animals, since it deprives the brain of oxygenated blood, while all other organs are deprived of the involuntary functions that are needed for the body to function.
In a campaign email Wednesday, former President Trump continued his post-conviction threats of revenge against his enemies by sharing the message “Haul out the Guillotine!” After being found ...