WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A guillotine 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.

Detailed explanation-2: -The name “guillotine” dates to the 1790s and the French Revolution, but similar execution machines had already been in existence for centuries.

Detailed explanation-3: -Use of the guillotine continued in France in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the last execution by guillotine occurred in 1977. In September 1981, France outlawed capital punishment altogether, thus abandoning the guillotine forever. There is a museum dedicated to the guillotine in Liden, Sweden.

Detailed explanation-4: -Roughly a year after the Louschart case, a new method of execution was publicly discussed for the first time: the guillotine, a machine of killing that would, so its creators insisted, deliver pristine justice, one rolling head at a time.

Detailed explanation-5: -The guillotine is best known as a method of executing those condemned to death during the French Revolution. Although it delivered a grisly end – by slicing off its victim’s head, death by guillotine was quick and humane.