Beheading was not used in Britain in Victorian times, it had stopped some hundreds of years earlier. Beheading by guillotine was still carried out in France in the 1920s and possibly later. People have been beheaded in Saudi Arabia in very recennt decades. I think the last Public Guillotining in France was as late as 1939 !
Members of the National convention turned on Robespierre. They demanded his arrest and execution. The factions within the revolutionary government did not agree, so it was inevitable that one would gain the upper hand and denounce the other groups. So several of those who approved beheadings were themselves beheaded on the guillotine.
France I think.
I think you are talking about King Louis the sixteenth. He was the king during the French revolution and was detained by the revolutionaries and later beheaded at the guillotine.
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Because everyone thought it was a good thing to watch people die, it brought pleasure and brought fear to the people who thought otherwise;)
Beheading was not used in Britain in Victorian times, it had stopped some hundreds of years earlier. Beheading by guillotine was still carried out in France in the 1920s and possibly later. People have been beheaded in Saudi Arabia in very recennt decades. I think the last Public Guillotining in France was as late as 1939 !
I think the word you're looking for is "decapitation", from the Latin "capo", meaning head. Another term is "guillotine", from the name of the machine used for executions during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. I presume you are not looking for the obvious "beheading".
Yes- think of the electric chair for executions.
yes they believed it caused instant death
In my personal opinion, it would be a second source,
No, it is just as "gross" as any other method to die, the only difference was that this one was a bit less painful that other killing methods I think it was very brutal and it left a huge blemish on the French Revolution. History depicts the Guillotine as a brutal and unnecessary tool used by Robespierre.
Absolutely not. Robespierre was instrumental in the king's execution. Though, come to think of it, they ended up on the same side - the wrong side of the guillotine. Actually, both sides of the guillotine.
Members of the National convention turned on Robespierre. They demanded his arrest and execution. The factions within the revolutionary government did not agree, so it was inevitable that one would gain the upper hand and denounce the other groups. So several of those who approved beheadings were themselves beheaded on the guillotine.
France, i think
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You cannot, if you think about it, be beheaded twice. However an executioner could have difficulties with beheading someone. King Louis XVI of France. The first time the blade fell on his head, it only severed him, and he was still alive, bleeding on the block. The guillotine blade had to be raised again for a second chop.