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 |  Subject: Happy birthday guillotine! 1792's cutting edge technology  Sat Apr 26, 2008 3:01 am | |
| On this day in 1792, the infamous guillotine claimed its first victim - a robber named Jacques Nicolas Pelletier. The guillotine remained France's number one method of execution for the next 189 years. To commemorate the role Pelletier played in history, let's take a look at the invention of the guillotine.
 A public guillotining in 1897
Though not the first device in history to execute people by decapitation, the guillotine is certainly the most memorable. France worked to improve it and it was the first country to adopt it as a main method of execution. In 1791, during the French Revolution, France's National Assembly worked to find a new execution method. The old way was the breaking wheel, also known as the Catherine wheel, where the condemned would be strapped to a wheel to be clubbed to death. The problem with this, however, was that the prisoner could be freed. This is precisely what happened in 1788, when a mob released the prisoner and broke the wheel.
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| | Subject: Re: Happy birthday guillotine! 1792's cutting edge technology Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:07 am | |
| Sick statist fucks!
Always death and destruction...
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