Guillotine Facts and Ideas

The guillotine dates back way further than just the french revolution. A
beheading device called the “planke” was used in Germany and Flanders
during the Middle Ages. Evidence also shows that primitive guillotines
may have been in use in France long before the days of the French
Revolution.

Facts
● The Guillotine blade falls at about 21/feet per second it takes about
a 70th of second for the blade to fall all the way.
● The guillotine was also used to execute during the Nazi period in
Germany. According to Nazi records, the guillotine was eventually
used to execute some 16,500 people between 1933 and 1945, many
of them resistance fighters and political dissidents.
● The last public guillotining was for Eugen Weidmann on July 17,
1939. He was executed in front of a large crowd. It was theorized
that the execution was secretly filmed.

In conclusion the guillotine was a very gruesome way of execution. IN

my opinion it should not have ever existed. There could have been better
ways of punishing such as jail or private executions. The guillotine was
just too extreme and a very inhumane way to execute. The guillotine was
just a way to terrorize people and make them follow your rule. That is
why the guillotine was the one of the most gruesome execution
processes there was.