Joseph-Ignace Guillotin: Physician Behind the Guillotine

One of the most significant and enduring names in the history of capital punishment is that of Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a French physician, politician, and freemason who proposed the use of a mechanical device to carry out executions in France on October 10, 1789. Although Guillotin did not invent the guillot…

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