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Guillotine
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A guillotine is a mechanical device used to execute people by beheading, consisting of a tall frame with a weighted blade at the top that swiftly decapitates a secured victim. It matters historically because it was adopted as an execution method in various countries and represents a significant aspect of capital punishment practices in certain time periods.
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- Named after
- Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
- Image
- Guillotine Luxembourg 01.jpg
- Has use
- capital punishment
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1792-00-00
- Commons category
- Guillotines
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- exact match
- wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/03467068-n
- topic's main category
- Category:Guillotine
- used by
- executioner
- replaces
- executioner's sword
- discoverer or inventor
- Antoine Louis
- uses
- scaffold
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject France
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Article · Deutsch
Die Guillotine [gijo'tiːn(ə)] (historisch auch Fallschwertmaschine oder Köpfmaschine genannt) ist ein nach dem französischen Arzt Joseph-Ignace Guillotin benanntes Fallbeil zur Vollstreckung der Todesstrafe durch Enthauptung.
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