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T h e Guillotine

T h e Guillotine . Capital Punishment. If you stole, killed someone, or committed a crime against the monarchy and found guilty – you were condemned to be executed. During the 1700's, executions in France (all over Europe really) were public events where entire towns gathered to watch.

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T h e Guillotine

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  1. The Guillotine

  2. Capital Punishment If you stole, killed someone, or committed a crime against the monarchy and found guilty – you were condemned to be executed. During the 1700's, executions in France (all over Europe really) were public events where entire towns gathered to watch. A common execution method for a poor criminal was, quartering. This is where the prisoner's limbs were tied to four oxen (or horses) then the animals were driven in four different directions ripping the person apart. Upper-class criminals could buy their way into a less painful death by hanging or beheading.

  3. Capital Crime If your crime was a capital crime – that is to say a crime against the king or queen - you would be drawn, quartered, and hung.

  4. Doctor Joseph IgnaceGuillotin Doctor Joseph IgnaceGuillotinbelonged to a small political reform movement that wanted to banish the death penalty completely. Guillotinargued for a painless and private capital punishment method equal for all the classes, as an interim step towards completely banning the death penalty.

  5. Guillotine Doctor Guillotin together with German engineer and harpsichord maker Tobias Schmidt, built the prototype for an ideal guillotine machine. Schmidt suggested using a diagonal blade instead of a round blade. On September 10, 1977, the last execution by guillotine took place in Marseilles, France, when the murderer HamidaDjandoubi was beheaded.

  6. Guillotine Facts Total weight of a guillotine is about 1278 lbs The guillotine metal blade weighs about 88.2 lbs The height of guillotine posts average about 14 feet The falling blade has a rate of speed of about 21 feet/second Just the actual beheading takes 2/100 of a second The time for the guillotine blade to fall down to where it stops takes 70th of a second

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