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The guillotine remained France's standard method of judicial execution until the abolition of capital punishment in 1981. The last person to be executed in France was Hamida Djandoubi, who was guillotined on 10 September 1977
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A guillotine (/ˈɡɪlətiːn/; French: [ɡijɔtin]) is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame in which a weighted and angled blade is raised to the top and suspended. The condemned person is secured with stocks at the bottom of the frame, positioning the neck directly below the blade. The blade is then released, to quickly fall and forcefully decapitate the victim with a single, clean pass so that the head falls into a basket below.
The device is best known for its use in France, in particular during the French Revolution, where it was celebrated as the people's avenger by supporters of the revolution and vilified as the pre-eminent symbol of the Reign of Terror by opponents.[1] The name dates from this period, but similar devices had been used elsewhere in Europe over several centuries. The display of severed heads had long been one of the most common ways a European sovereign displayed their power to their subjects.[2]
The guillotine remained France's standard method of judicial execution until the abolition of capital punishment in 1981.[3] The last person to be executed in France was Hamida Djandoubi, who was guillotined on 10 September 1977. This was also the last time that the government of a Western nation ever executed an individual by beheading.
During the span of its usage, the French guillotine has gone by many names, some of which include these:
La Monte-à-regret (The Regretful Climb)[44][45]
Le Rasoir National (The National Razor)[45]
Le Vasistas or La Lucarne (The Fanlight)[45][46]
La Veuve (The Widow)[45]
Le Moulin à Silence (The Silence Mill)[45]
Louisette or Louison (from the name of prototype designer Antoine Louis)[45]
Madame La Guillotine[47]
Mirabelle (from the name of Mirabeau)[45]
La Bécane (The Machine)[45]
Le Massicot (The Cutter)[46]
La Cravate à Capet (Capet's Necktie, Capet being Louis XVI)[46]
La Raccourcisseuse Patriotique (The Patriotic Shortener)[46]
La demi-lune (The Half-Moon)[46]
Les Bois de Justice (Woods of Justice)[46]
La Bascule à Charlot (Charlot's Rocking-chair)[46]
Le Prix Goncourt des Assassins (The Goncourt Prize for Murderers)[46]
Decapitation is the complete separation of the head from the body. Such an injury is always fatal to humans and animals, since it deprives all other organs of the involuntary functions that are needed for the body to function, while the brain is deprived of oxygenated blood and blood pressure.