The+Guillotine

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// Most historical records and various primitive tribal practices indicate that the death penalty was a part of their justice system Beheading devices had already been used by many different countries such as Scotland, Persia, Itlay, and Germany for aristocratic criminals. Public punishments would continue to attract large crowds. // An estimated guess of 40,000 people were beheaded from1789 to 1799. Just about 11 people executed a day The Guillotine was invented by Dr. joseph Ignace Guillotine. He proposed a mechine that satisfied many needs, it was efficient, humane, and democratic. The Guillotine was introduced in 1792 many French criminals had suffered thought horrible punishments in public places. Before each execution, bound victims traveled from the prison to the scaffold horse-drawn crafts during a one and one-half hour procession through city streets.The blade was raised with a rope, and the condemned then places his or her head beneath it. The blade falls rapidly, severing the head from the body. The Guillotine became a part of popular culture, celebrated as people's avenger by supporters of the Revp;ution and vlified as pre-eminent symbol of the region of terror by opponents.The Guillotinee was used long after the French Revolution in several countries, including France, where it was the sole method of execution until the abolition of capital punishment in 1981. 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 serve." The first guillotineing took place on April 25, 1792, when Nicolas Jacques Pelletie was guillotined at place de Greve. BankLous 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. On Septeber 10, 1977, the last execution by guillotine took place in Marseilles, france, when the murderer Hamida Djandoubi was beheaded. for a period of time this invention was called louisette.

Camille Desmoulins was a journalist and politician who played an important role in the Fernch Revolution. Camille Desmoulins is who gave the guillotine its name. Gullitine had fired him off the National Assembly for bring food, alcohol, and prostitutes. the mechine was not yet invented yet but out of revenge Camille named the mechine after Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotine.

Antoine louis was the man that actually invented The Guillotine. Antoine Louis, secretary of the Acadamy of Surgeons. In 1770 he was appointed professer of Physiology, he maintained that position for forty years. Louis credited for designing a prototype of the Guillotine

A French phyisican,also president of the Chamber of the Provinces in 1775, deputy of the French Assembly in 1789, and founder of the French Acadamy of Medicine. As a deputy of the states-general, Guillotin was the first to demand a doubling of the representatives of the Third Estate. December 1, 1789 he urged capital punishment should be inflicted as speedily and painlessly as possible also arged for a medine designed for the end of peoples lives. Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotine wasn't the one who invented the Guillotine, but his name will forever be attached to it. Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin claimed that those executed with the device "wouldn't even feel the slightest pain."