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**The Guillotine**



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The guillotine started long before the french revolution, beheading devices had already been used in Germany, Italy and Prussia for aristocratic criminals, Prior to the Guillotines intro in 1792. Many french criminals had suffered through horrible punishments in public places.This machine was used for capital punishment.

Doctor Joseph-ignace Guillotine did not invent the machine but suggested that the death penalty should be all equal for all, regardless of social rank and nature of the crime. its a mechanical devce to eliminate suffering. Doctor Guillotine gave the ideal of the machine to Antoine Louis, who hired a german harpsichord maker named Tobias Schmidt to actually build this machine.