The guillotine was the preferred method of execution during France's "Reign of Terror" in the 1790s. But the origins of this ...

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A common rumor holds that Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the Frenchman who invented the guillotine, was also eventually executed with the device. But as the Dictionary of Eponyms notes, "Dr. Joseph ...

From there, the guillotine would reign for another two centuries: It remained the standard means of execution for condemned civilians in France until the death penalty was abolished in 1981.

The latest eyebrow-raising haircut trend of the moment might also be the most dramatic. Meet the "guillotine cut," or the "coiffure a la victime" ("hairstyle of the victim," for those of us who don't ...

It may come as a surprise to some that France routinely used the guillotine as its official method of capital punishment until 1977, when Hamida Djandoubi became the last man guillotined in the ...

The Guillotine. Share full article. July 26, 1908. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from July 26, 1908, Section PART, Page 6 Buy Reprints.

Jeremy Mercer's "When the Guillotine Fell," a history of the device and capital punishment in general, uses Djandoubi's crime - the brutal torture and murder of a 22-year-old woman ...

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