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Nine émigrés are executed by guillotine, 1793. Date: 5 September 1793 – 27 July 1794 ... An additional 10,000 to 12,000 people had been executed without trial and ...
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 ...
Politics portal. v. t. e. Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre ( French: [maksimiljɛ̃ ʁɔbɛspjɛʁ]; 6 May 1758 – 10 Thermidor, Year II 28 July 1794) was a French lawyer and statesman, widely recognized as one of the most influential and controversial figures of the French Revolution. Robespierre fervently campaigned for the ...
The rope was too long and over-measured, causing him to be decapitated. [8] Moses Shrimpton (1885) – Hanging. His neck muscles were weak and he was decapitated. [9] Roxana Druse (1887) – Hanging. The last woman hanged in the state of New York, and the first woman hanged in 40 years in Central New York.
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 existing methods. Although he did not invent the guillotine and opposed ...
Charles-Henri Sanson was the fourth in a six-generation family dynasty of executioners. His great-grandfather, a soldier in the French royal army named Charles Sanson (1658 – 1695) of Abbeville, was appointed as Executioner of Paris in 1688. [1] Upon his death in 1695, the Sanson patriarch passed the office to his son, also named Charles ...
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793), known simply as Charlotte Corday ( French: [kɔʁdɛ] ), was a figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July 1793. Born in Normandy to a minor aristocratic family, Corday was a resident of Caen and a ...
Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé. Hans Vollenweider. Categories: People executed by decapitation. Guillotine. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.