The guillotine’s story in France had begun ... proposed a standard system of capital punishment for all. At the time, execution methods tended to vary based on the class or rank of the criminal ...

The guillotine, employed during France's "Reign of Terror" in the 1790s, emerged as the favored execution method. Surprisingly, this macabre contraption, engineered for mechanical beheading ...

Idaho lawmakers have advanced a bill to make a firing squad the state’s primary method of execution, as the trial of accused ...

The protesters followed a call from the Answer Coalition, which held several events on Inauguration Day that it referred to as the "National Day of Action." ...

Corry sophomore Carson Braswell shows a guillotine on this edition of District 10 wrestling Technique of the Week.

Putting his hand on the prisoner’s arm, Executioner Goebler steered van der Lubbe to the guillotine, strapped him down, pressed a button releasing the great knife and stood back as it fell.

While spending his days in the cell waiting for the guillotine and the executioner, Neel is invited by the captain's wife Mrs. Pauline to help her in her garden and becomes her protégé.