What It Was Like to Witness the Guillotine
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Date: 2022-12-29
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LocoMotive
It seems humane but as you kind of said, the head is aware for about 1-2 mins after decapitated because the brain is still active until it loses oxygen. Meaning, you'd feel the excruciating pain because the nerves are sending signals to the brain, you would still be able to see and hear what's going on for those 1-2 mins. And im sure they would panic because they can't breathe in because the head doesn't have access to our oxygen vaccumes we call lungs. So all you can do is see, hear, and panic with thought, until you finally pass away
No matter how you execute someone back in those days, the person in question will feel the pain, wether hanging, guillotine, or gun shot to the head (which is the quickest way because you won't be able to process that you're dying)
i swear I'm not phsyco, Ive been on a medieval history rampage and it's one of the things I learned about. This dude is the reason why I'm on a history binge right now
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It seems humane but as you kind of said, the head is aware for about 1-2 mins after decapitated because the brain is still active until it loses oxygen. Meaning, you'd feel the excruciating pain because the nerves are sending signals to the brain, you would still be able to see and hear what's going on for those 1-2 mins. And im sure they would panic because they can't breathe in because the head doesn't have access to our oxygen vaccumes we call lungs. So all you can do is see, hear, and panic with thought, until you finally pass away
No matter how you execute someone back in those days, the person in question will feel the pain, wether hanging, guillotine, or gun shot to the head (which is the quickest way because you won't be able to process that you're dying)
i swear I'm not phsyco, Ive been on a medieval history rampage and it's one of the things I learned about. This dude is the reason why I'm on a history binge right now
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Paul
In Halifax, West Yorkshire, they used the guillotine as a form of execution. In one quirk of law, they allowed the convicted criminal to run down Gibbet Street, and if he/she could outrun the crowd who chased them to the guillotine, they were given a reprieve from execution, and imprisoned instead. Not many criminals escaped the Gibbet (As they called the guillotine, as most of the criminals were wearing chains around their hands and feet to stop them escaping from their guards on the way to the start of the race, and were made to run while wearing them, too. Also, the crowds gathered to watch used to trip the prisoners, or throw refuse at them, further causing them to slow down or stop completely, if not run into the crowd after being blinded by thrown cow dung/rotten fruit, or, in one particular instance, a live chicken thrown into a prisoner's face.
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In Halifax, West Yorkshire, they used the guillotine as a form of execution. In one quirk of law, they allowed the convicted criminal to run down Gibbet Street, and if he/she could outrun the crowd who chased them to the guillotine, they were given a reprieve from execution, and imprisoned instead. Not many criminals escaped the Gibbet (As they called the guillotine, as most of the criminals were wearing chains around their hands and feet to stop them escaping from their guards on the way to the start of the race, and were made to run while wearing them, too. Also, the crowds gathered to watch used to trip the prisoners, or throw refuse at them, further causing them to slow down or stop completely, if not run into the crowd after being blinded by thrown cow dung/rotten fruit, or, in one particular instance, a live chicken thrown into a prisoner's face.
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Kevin
humane? The first time you would be was tested in public the crowd shut the gates and screamed give us back our wooden Gallos give us back our hang man's noose. My math is good enough but terminal velocity is 29 ft. /s per second meaning that each second multiplies its original speed the spinal cord is less than 2/10 of an inch from the surface of the neck. It is doubtful the executed person feels even pinprick before they are already dead. I would say we should bring the damn thing back and use it for executions, the problem is that our court system is so screwed up in corrupt the innocent people die constantly as it is. But the guillotine is definitely humane.
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humane? The first time you would be was tested in public the crowd shut the gates and screamed give us back our wooden Gallos give us back our hang man's noose. My math is good enough but terminal velocity is 29 ft. /s per second meaning that each second multiplies its original speed the spinal cord is less than 2/10 of an inch from the surface of the neck. It is doubtful the executed person feels even pinprick before they are already dead. I would say we should bring the damn thing back and use it for executions, the problem is that our court system is so screwed up in corrupt the innocent people die constantly as it is. But the guillotine is definitely humane.
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Wayne
I have four books on the guillotine. The person who I read about the most is Charlotte Corday especially when the executioner hit her severed head and her head blushed. I trying to find her 2008 movie and yes I have to send a letter to the mussee carnavalet in Paris France see if they can help me with this. I have French revolution movies that show's the guillotine.
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I have four books on the guillotine. The person who I read about the most is Charlotte Corday especially when the executioner hit her severed head and her head blushed. I trying to find her 2008 movie and yes I have to send a letter to the mussee carnavalet in Paris France see if they can help me with this. I have French revolution movies that show's the guillotine.
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education
Bloodshed, horror, tortures and death make people feel excited and euphoric. No wonder there are plenty of very popular horror movies and gruesome websites; and in the past, when public executions were allowed, were always one of the best entertainment surrounded by mass crowd, even the hotels nearby were all booked like celebrating a huge festival.
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Bloodshed, horror, tortures and death make people feel excited and euphoric. No wonder there are plenty of very popular horror movies and gruesome websites; and in the past, when public executions were allowed, were always one of the best entertainment surrounded by mass crowd, even the hotels nearby were all booked like celebrating a huge festival.
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Stephen
I think this was better than being hanged or drawn & quartered. Definitely better than being burned at the stake, or boiled alive (yesthat really happened. Its said that the head might have 7-10 seconds of consciousness after beheading. If soId wish I could stick out my tongue as they showed my severed head to the crowd!
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I think this was better than being hanged or drawn & quartered. Definitely better than being burned at the stake, or boiled alive (yesthat really happened. Its said that the head might have 7-10 seconds of consciousness after beheading. If soId wish I could stick out my tongue as they showed my severed head to the crowd!
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Tiisiphone
Executioner Charles-Henri Sanson never slapped Charlotte Corday's severed head, one of his hired hands did (and was fired for it. It is an urban myth, and you can read the whole story in Sanson's memoirs.
Beside this, very accurate and well-documented video.
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Executioner Charles-Henri Sanson never slapped Charlotte Corday's severed head, one of his hired hands did (and was fired for it. It is an urban myth, and you can read the whole story in Sanson's memoirs.
Beside this, very accurate and well-documented video.
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Kyote
What did Louis XVI mean by. the blood you are going to she'd may never be visited on France?
WOW! Imagine witnessing Charlotte Corday's facial expression upon being slapped _after_ her beheading! And being willed a handkerchief with king Louis XVI's blood eh!
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What did Louis XVI mean by. the blood you are going to she'd may never be visited on France?
WOW! Imagine witnessing Charlotte Corday's facial expression upon being slapped _after_ her beheading! And being willed a handkerchief with king Louis XVI's blood eh!
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Leah
Fun fact:
As Marie Antoinette ascended the stairs to the scaffold, she accidentally stepped on the foot of her executioner. A lady to the very end, she apologized to him; her final words were I did not do it on purpose.
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Fun fact:
As Marie Antoinette ascended the stairs to the scaffold, she accidentally stepped on the foot of her executioner. A lady to the very end, she apologized to him; her final words were I did not do it on purpose.
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Mark
Christopher Lee witnessed the execution of Eugene Wieldman in 1939. I think he was only 17 at the time. That was the last public beheading in France. Before that there was alot of head raising to the people. 1792-1794.
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Christopher Lee witnessed the execution of Eugene Wieldman in 1939. I think he was only 17 at the time. That was the last public beheading in France. Before that there was alot of head raising to the people. 1792-1794.
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R&G
lol the world before sports really had nothing to cheer on besides executions war and political figures
Entertainment industry saved humanity
Pregaming for an execution?
Oh my days
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lol the world before sports really had nothing to cheer on besides executions war and political figures
Entertainment industry saved humanity
Pregaming for an execution?
Oh my days
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atta
Pakistan needs 100 guillotines for corrupt elements without such punishment the elites classes can't be controlled. Those people did a right job to save Europeans from further degradation.
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Pakistan needs 100 guillotines for corrupt elements without such punishment the elites classes can't be controlled. Those people did a right job to save Europeans from further degradation.
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JonniePolyester
What about garrotting? Francos Spain used it as their go to method of execution right up until March 1974 with garrotting of the Catalan militant anarchist Salvador Puig Antich.
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What about garrotting? Francos Spain used it as their go to method of execution right up until March 1974 with garrotting of the Catalan militant anarchist Salvador Puig Antich.
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mneisbaar
I think that there should be one set up in DC and we start feeding it with the criminals that reside there in the federal government for their crimes against humanity and treason.
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I think that there should be one set up in DC and we start feeding it with the criminals that reside there in the federal government for their crimes against humanity and treason.
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Glaziola
If it were to happen today and if I were to view it in real time, Id react poorly the first few times, but I feel like after a while I wouldnt mind it
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If it were to happen today and if I were to view it in real time, Id react poorly the first few times, but I feel like after a while I wouldnt mind it
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KiwiKh
French guillotine be like
Person: so lay here
Me: what's that blade
Person: it cuts heads off
Me: So no head
Person: yep
drops blade
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French guillotine be like
Person: so lay here
Me: what's that blade
Person: it cuts heads off
Me: So no head
Person: yep
drops blade
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Abdi
Barbaric. When 14 I witnessed the execution of seven men. They were shot with AK47 and alot of bullets. I still have night mares even 38 years later.
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Barbaric. When 14 I witnessed the execution of seven men. They were shot with AK47 and alot of bullets. I still have night mares even 38 years later.
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tootired76
I think back to the original Papillion movie with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman. A prisoner was beheaded. Made me sick to my stomach.
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I think back to the original Papillion movie with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman. A prisoner was beheaded. Made me sick to my stomach.
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MEKHA
i will laugh at the top off my face the head chops it swiftly falls a murder commits crime he will swiftly go to the guillotine
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i will laugh at the top off my face the head chops it swiftly falls a murder commits crime he will swiftly go to the guillotine
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Ty
Cant wait to see all the dirty politicians and businessmen meet their maker at the guillotine when people have finally had enough
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Cant wait to see all the dirty politicians and businessmen meet their maker at the guillotine when people have finally had enough
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