3+The+Guillotine

//** The Guillotine **// //**Some methods of execution were used across France in the early 18th century, ranging from the painful, to the grotesque, bloody and painful. Hanging and burning were common, as were more imaginative methods, such as tying the victim to four horses and forcing these to gallop in different directions, a process that tore the individual apart. The rich and powerful patrons could be executed by axe or by sword, while the not so rich would suffer or would be tortured that would consist of hanging, drawing and quartering. The first solid use of the guillotine was in 1307.**//

media type="custom" key="14133746" width="90" height="90" align="right" //** Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin proposed a machine that satisfied many needs- it was efficient, humane, and democratic.The guillotine weighed approxamatiely 1278lbs. The blade by itself weighed about 88lbs. The guillotine stands 14ft. tall. The blade falls at the rate of speed of 21 feet/seconds. It takes 2/100 of a second to behead someone, and it only takes a 70th of a second for the blade to fully drop **////** A physician and a member of the National Assembly, Guillotin claimed that those executed with the device " wouldn't even feel the slightest pain." Beheading devices had already been used in Germany, Itlay, Scotland, and Persia for aristocratic criminals. Prior to the guillotine's introduction in 1792, many French criminals had suffered through horrible punishments in public places. Although public punishments would continue to attract large crowds, not all spectators were pleased with the machine. The new civilian assembly rewrote the penal code to say, "Every person condemned to the death penalty shall have his head served."The 13 seconds is the amount of high energy phosphates that the cytochromes in the brain have to keep going without new oxygen and glucose After a man is beheaded they stick needles on his eyes and shouting in there face and put them on a stick to show inteligents. **//



//**Lous XIV's was found guilty and was voted to be sentenced to death. On January 21, 1793 walked up the steps and was beheaded by the guillotine.**// //**The first guillotineing took place on April 25, 1792, when Nicolas Jacques Pelletie was guillotined at place de Greve on the right bank Lous XIV. On Septeber 10, 1977, the last execution by guillotine took place in Marseilles, france, when the murderer Hamida Djandoubi was beheaded.**//