News, French guillotine exhibition opens 33 years after the last head fell. (death penalty, difference)

[JD59]

Beneath the grey veil used to cloak her awful secrets from the public gaze, "the widow" stands 14ft tall and the blade hangs menacingly over a hole designed for a neck. "One can have a certain indifference on the death penalty," read Victor Hugo's famous words nearby, "as long as one has not seen a guillotine with one's own eyes."

French guillotine exhibition opens 33 years after the last head fell | World news | The Guardian

[tyvin]

Outrageous! I love the study of old weapons and ways.

The guillotine's blade was not always successful with the first drop.

I didn't know they were using up until 1977.

I can't comment on a piece about the guillotine without referring to Marie Antoinette (what an end).