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Created: 02/16 05:18 am
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The Guillotine
Your head is placed in the guillotine because it was orderd you do so by reicht of law
there is no executoner and your hand is placed on the rope which releases the blade
you have been sented to life to the guillotine in towns square and become a mockery
this is because you have been given two options kneel there with your head snug in that half circle
staring down to see a woven brown basket and slightly above you see the shiny slanted blade twinkle from the sun
You have been crouched there a week now sobbing, hand trembling, mind racing, sweat dripping...
You have been given two options.
“At half past 12 the guillotine severed her head from her body.” So reads the statement containing the first recorded use of guillotine in English, found in the Annual Register of 1793. Ironically, the guillotine, which became the most notable symbol of the excesses of the French Revolution, was named for a humanitarian physician, Joseph Ignace Guillotin. Guillotin, a member of the French Constituent Assembly, recommended in a speech to that body on October 10, 1789, that executions be performed by a beheading device rather than by hanging, the method used for commoners, or by the sword, reserved for the nobility. He argued that beheading by machine was quicker and less painful than the work of the rope and the sword. In 1791 the Assembly did indeed adopt beheading by machine as the state's preferred method of execution. A beheading device designed by Dr. Antoine Louis, secretary of the College of Surgeons, was first used on April 25, 1792, to execute a highwayman named Pelletier or Peletier. The device was called a louisette or louison after its inventor's name, but because of Guillotin's famous speech, his name became irrevocably associated with the machine. After Guillotin's death in 1814, his children tried unsuccessfully to get the device's name changed. When their efforts failed, they were allowed to change their name instead.
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