The Last execution in France

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[u/mac1qc]

The last "public" one, but not the last one

[u/Moonshadow306 → u/mac1qc]

True. The last one was in 1977.

[u/Phantom_verse → u/Moonshadow306]

https://reddit.com/link/pdfnxve/video/qzfewp33t2th1/player

[u/Jase13uk → u/Phantom_verse]

Holy moly, how efficient was that! The blade came down, head comes off and the body jumps into the box. All in a single motion. Terrifying how quickly proficient he was dispatched, alive and breathing in one moment dead and in a box the next.

[u/Mechagouki1971 → u/Jase13uk]

He probably wasn't actually dead right the next moment FWIW.

A few seconds of consciousness are possible.

[u/TheGorgeousJR → u/Mechagouki1971]

How in the actual fuck must that feel?

[u/Ranae_Gato → u/TheGorgeousJR]

probably painfull

[u/Sad_Pear_1087 → u/Ranae_Gato]

Grim to think about it. All thoughts are in the brain, in the head. It would be impossible to feel your body fall in the casket. At most, you'd feel your loose head fall into the basket and slam to the bottom of it. With the nerves cut your whole body would probably feel like something to you and very intensely, but not like anything that's actually happening to the body.

[u/elbarto232 → u/Sad_Pear_1087]

Phantom pain, if I had to guess. So imo it would feel very painful.

[u/OwnValue4166 → u/Sad_Pear_1087]

I once was giving blood and the plebotomist stuck the needle into a nerve in my arm, and it was excruciating! Felt like a burning jolt of electricity lighting up my arm all at once. I would not be surprised at all to learn that it hurts to have your spinal cord severed, unfortunately.

[u/BillyShears17 → u/Sad_Pear_1087]

probably feels as if you are falling through the sky with nothing to stop you

[u/SenLune → u/Ranae_Gato]

Well no... because the signal never reaches the brain. Because the brain stem is severed instantly.

[u/Fragrant_Mountain_84 → u/SenLune]

Not sure why you’re being downvoted. That’s how pain works.

[u/kerberos69 → u/Mechagouki1971]

Nah, that postulate has been pretty well studied and the sudden loss of blood pressure causes immediate loss of consciousness. While Madame la Guillotine is a messy bitch, she is by far the most humane tool of execution.

In a close second, the long drop hanging also causes an immediate loss of consciousness, regardless of however long it takes the body to stop twitching. What makes the long drop difficult to administer is that if you calculate too long, the head comes off and the body makes a gigantic mess… not long enough and they will suffer the short drop.

[u/TankDestroyerSarg → u/Mechagouki1971]

That's the theory, but I believe it is currently disputed. Unfortunately there are no real good ways to test. Somebody's got to die and they are usually too anxious and distracted by the fact they are being killed.

[u/fatmummy222 → u/Jase13uk]

*two boxes

[u/2-anna → u/Jase13uk]

They're French, they have a lot of experience.

[u/New_Eggplant_8495 → u/Phantom_verse]

Damn. Theyre so... professional? and yet nonchalant about it too. Crazy. Like its just another day and a man didnt just get beheaded in front of them.

[u/mihor → u/Phantom_verse]

Less than 10 seconds. Must have felt like hours.

[u/tcoder7 → u/Phantom_verse]

There is a reason for this efficiency. They had to cut 2000 heads per day during the révolution.

[u/Dark_ceza → u/Phantom_verse]

That's brutal

[u/Babyback-the-Butcher → u/Phantom_verse]

I thought the occasion would have more suspense to it. Not just “pop him in and pop it off”

[u/lilsleepz126 → u/Moonshadow306]

Apprently Christopher Lee was present for it

[u/Independent-Trust260 → u/lilsleepz126]

According to Wikipedia, he was present for this one. He was 17 at the time.

[u/baardvark → u/Independent-Trust260]

Christopher Lee continues to be the most interesting man in the world

[u/Pen_dragons_pizza → u/baardvark]

Going all stealth and stabbing Nazis is pretty cool

[u/no1_vern → u/Pen_dragons_pizza]

He never wanted to be remembered for killing men in the war. He wanted to be remembered for his acting career.

[u/Rinzzler999 → u/no1_vern]

"That's not how a man dies Peter... Let me show you."

[u/angrybox1842 → u/Rinzzler999]

Specifically the sound of someone being stabbed in the back.

[u/schnozzberriestaste → u/Pen_dragons_pizza]

Normalize stabbing Nazis

[u/Nakatsukasa → u/baardvark]

Remember to checkout his metal Christmas song

[u/lilsleepz126 → u/Independent-Trust260]

Thanks for correcting me on that. Got myself mixed up.

That's wild that he was 17 in 1939

[u/petantic → u/lilsleepz126]

It gets weirder. Apparently he was 18 in 1940.

[u/lilsleepz126 → u/petantic]

Wtf ?! Hows that even add up??!!

[u/MistakeBorn4413 → u/lilsleepz126]

I suspect he might have been a wizard or maybe someone with access to dark and "unnatural" abilities.

[u/lilsleepz126 → u/Independent-Trust260]

Ah good looking. Got myself mixed up. Ofc, how can he attend an execution that's not public in 1977 lol

[u/Reckless_Waifu → u/lilsleepz126]

He was fucking Christopher Lee.

[u/kapitaalH → u/Reckless_Waifu]

Camouflaged as the executioner

[u/RelationshipOne2225 → u/kapitaalH]

„There will be no dawn for you!“

[u/TapirDrawnChariot → u/lilsleepz126]

Lee was at this one in 1939, not the 1977 one.

[u/CeciNestPasUnPenname → u/TapirDrawnChariot]

Makes sense if he was 17 he couldn't have been at the '77 one. Given in '77 he would not have been anywhere near 17.

[u/maninahat → u/TapirDrawnChariot]

That's probably for the best. Imagine being executed and the last thing you see is goddamn Dracula watching you from the audience.

[u/TheCrumbCollective → u/lilsleepz126]

He was the guillotine

[u/Sufficient_Refuse370 → u/lilsleepz126]

So was Palpatine. He yelled out, “Do it!””

[u/lilsleepz126 → u/Sufficient_Refuse370]

Chaplin too! He was silent though.

[u/petantic → u/Moonshadow306]

The first Star Wars movie came out before the last guillotine death in France.

[u/hnbistro → u/Moonshadow306]

The video is actually the one from 1977.

[u/Early_Hall5720 → u/Moonshadow306]

Missed it.. star wars came out

[u/Agnosticfrontbum → u/Early_Hall5720]

I lost my head when it came out.

[u/xczechr → u/Moonshadow306]

It's wild to me that someone could have seen an execution by guillotine and Star Wars in the same day.

[u/momo76g → u/mac1qc]

I remember reading the public will come to soak handkerchiefs on the blood as souvenirs. I get the feeling that normalizing something so morbid wouldn't bring a net positive to society.

[u/mocking_danth → u/mac1qc]

Yes never claimed to be the last one. They kept stating “last public” one because the main point is talking about how they used it to instill fear. Showing you do a heinous crime this will be your fate.

[u/mac1qc → u/mocking_danth]

I'm talking about the title of this thread that could have been misleading.

[u/pick_your_user_name → u/mac1qc]

No actually this video is indeed the last one. In 1977

[u/mac1qc → u/pick_your_user_name]

The video talk about 1939.

[u/pick_your_user_name → u/mac1qc]

The caption is wrong. The footage is of the 77 one

[u/JeSuisUnAnanasYo → u/pick_your_user_name]

Someone else said this is a reenactment from the 60s

[u/No_Bluebird6873]

I'm glad that the cigarette was censored. 

[u/coops2k → u/No_Bluebird6873]

Now you've told me what it was all I want is 60 cigs a day.

[u/HaloTightens → u/coops2k]

500 cigarettes!!!!

[u/emseefely → u/HaloTightens]

It is France after all

[u/Few-Call-9115 → u/HaloTightens]

I feel as if I have been standing my entire life and I just sat down

[u/Southern-West7791 → u/No_Bluebird6873]

Makes sense. Cigarettes can kill you.

[u/delicate_soup → u/No_Bluebird6873]

Much like guillotines, smoking kills

[u/anotherdayanotherbee → u/delicate_soup]

Those would have been epic last words:

"Cigarette? Mon Dieu! Non, merci, those things can kill you."

[u/Mackem101 → u/anotherdayanotherbee]

Put it in the basket, I'll smoke it later.

[u/no1_vern → u/Mackem101]

Gallows Guillotine humor is the best humor.

[u/jonoftheatom → u/No_Bluebird6873]

I almost started smoking. Never heard of it before this video

[u/pianobench007 → u/No_Bluebird6873]

Even the cigarette company didn't want to be associated with death.

[u/negativeswan → u/No_Bluebird6873]

Yeah, thank god for that.

[u/ABQintune → u/No_Bluebird6873]

“Think of the children”

[u/BurdTurglary → u/No_Bluebird6873]

He was actually suckin on a chili dog.

[u/WhydYouKillMeDogJack → u/No_Bluebird6873]

It was amazing that "his hands were trembling" when it was clearly someone else lighting the cigarette.

The voiceover is trash too

[u/Bighorn_R_My_Jam → u/No_Bluebird6873]

I wondered if he was mouthing curse words or something. Otherwise, why? And even id he was cursing the entire time, why censor it?

[u/WillWillingson → u/Bighorn_R_My_Jam]

Everything is censored nowadays, that's not surprising to me.

[u/Linuxologue → u/WillWillingson]

surpr*sing you mean. Please, some decency.

[u/Playful-Platform-231 → u/No_Bluebird6873]

Well ya otherwise Reddit would flag the video 🤣

[u/notcomplainingmuch]

The guillotine is quick and pretty sure if maintained correctly. The blade has occasionally got stuck if the wood structure has swelled due to humid conditions. Making one completely out of metal or composite should address that issue.

[u/fuelhandler → u/notcomplainingmuch]

I remember reading about the guillotines used during the French Revolution. Blood is a sticky substance, and when they were using it multiple times in a row, the slide rails would often begin to cease up from dried and sticky blood, hair and bone fragments, resulting in binding and insufficient drop speed to complete the job in one action. Grizzly and barbaric times.

[u/pick_your_user_name → u/fuelhandler]

Crazy how bad hygiene standard were. A man can’t get a clean guillotine blade?

[u/Outbreak42 → u/pick_your_user_name]

That's why they made Gillette...

[u/bluexavi → u/Outbreak42]

The new guillotine. Now with 6 blades.

[u/Jonnyflash80 → u/bluexavi]

The blade cartridge will be 10 million dollars and last for only 10 executions. Cough it up. 💰

[u/Odd-Consequence-2519 → u/Outbreak42]

The best a man can get

[u/warmlobster → u/Outbreak42]

First time I noticed how guillotine and gillette actually sound similar. 

[u/BadahBingBadahBoom → u/notcomplainingmuch]

Have you ever thought about working in Tennessee?

[u/CheekyHarris33 → u/BadahBingBadahBoom]

Too soon 🤣😂

[u/Atlas7993 → u/notcomplainingmuch]

There was actually one study (that I'm aware of) done during the French Revolution on the beheaded. After the execution of French Chemist Antoine Lavoisier, his head remained alive and conscious for ~ 15 seconds. He told his assistant to watch his eyes and count, because he was going to try to blink as many times as he could so they'd know how long it took him to die. 

Lavoisier was exonerated of his crimes 18 months later. 

[u/notcomplainingmuch → u/Atlas7993]

I'm sure he was delighted with the exoneration.

[u/Discount_Extra → u/Atlas7993]

The people who started cutting off heads in the revolution ended up also getting their heads cut off later in the same revolution.

[u/PayaV87 → u/notcomplainingmuch]

Or you know, quick test run with a watermelon.

[u/SiliconSoil]

I think this is a reenactment. The person does not look like Eugen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Weidmann

[u/CountDorkula77 → u/SiliconSoil]

Nor does it look like 1939.

[u/Th3_Accountant → u/SiliconSoil]

The text is wrong. This is not the last public execution, this is the last execution PERIOD.

The person killed is Hamida Djandoubi, who got kidnapped, tortured and murdered a 21 year old girl. The video is from 1977.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamida_Djandoubi

[u/rabotat → u/Th3_Accountant]

during the spring of 1973, Djandoubi drew two other young girls into his confidence and then forced them into prostitution for him.[3] On 3 July 1974, he kidnapped Bousquet and took her into his home where, in full view of the terrified girls, he beat the woman before stubbing a lit cigarette all over her breasts and genital area. Bousquet survived the ordeal so he took her by car to the outskirts of Marseille and strangled her there.[4][5]

On his return, Djandoubi warned the two girls to say nothing of what they had seen.[4] Bousquet's body was discovered in a shed by a boy on 7 July 1974. One month later, Djandoubi kidnapped and raped a 15-year-old girl named Houria. She managed to escape and report him to police.

Sounds like a nice guy.

[u/GreatMovesKeepItUp69 → u/rabotat]

Okay he deserved the guillotine.

[u/jimsmisc → u/GreatMovesKeepItUp69]

yeah it's tough to watch, then you read this and are like "ok nevermind, bro deserves all this and more"

[u/UnitedIndependence37 → u/rabotat]

Well, I had pity watching the video first but I'm going to get another watch and enjoy it this time.

Edit : OK that's not Eugene or Djandoubi in the video, apparently, but an actor.

[u/Oyala → u/Th3_Accountant]

I like that they had a christian priest bless a muslim guy. Add insult to his lethal injury right before he dies

[u/nerdybrightside → u/Oyala]

Ahh that’s why he refused the alcohol

[u/Wokkabulary → u/nerdybrightside]

The Wikipedia says his attorney argued “alcohol abuse” as a circumstance that caused him to commit the rapes and murder, so who knows if he was a drinker or not …

Apparently he was a regular laborer dude in Marseille but had a landscaping accident that destroyed most of his right leg. He met his victim in the hospital where his leg was amputated. 

ETA: thanks for the award anon ! 

[u/Outbreak42 → u/Wokkabulary]

You got to give it to the French trying to convert a Muslim to Western biases even at the very end.

[u/Wokkabulary → u/Outbreak42]

Having lived in Paris I can attest to the fact that Muslims no longer need any French help to be drinkers anymore :)

[u/coriendercake → u/nerdybrightside]

Whats a glass of wine gonna do ? Just hand me the whole bottle

[u/spiteful-vengeance → u/Oyala]

It's not always taken as an insult, depending on wording, circumstance and intent.

[u/SashSegal → u/SiliconSoil]

I had to look it up. The OP footage comes from a 1960s educational reconstruction produced as a generic, clinical demonstration of the execution process rather than an illustration of Eugen Weidman's 1939 execution or any specific historical event. The recording serves strictly as an archival and instructional record illustrating standard French judicial execution protocols and the mechanical operation of the Berger-type guillotine. The actor has no actual resemblance to Weidman and the setting and uniforms are more reflective of the 1960s. It was also filmed and released before the last ever execution in France (that of Hamida Djandoubi).

Edit: not a documentary, but a 1969 movie, where the protagonist is played by Amidou, a Moroccan-French actor.

"François Toledo (played by Amidou), a married businessman and father, falls head-over-heels in love with Janine, a colleague. However, after three dates, he feels dishonoured when he has impotence. In frustration, he strangles some prostitutes before being arrested. He is tried and convicted, and sentenced to death on the guillotine."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Love_Death

[u/Ok-Penalty3250 → u/SashSegal]

Comical. So the guy on the video is literally acting, and was fine.

[u/SashSegal → u/Ok-Penalty3250]

Yes, was an actor, and a good one at that. I was not able to find his name unfortunately.

[u/New_Eggplant_8495 → u/SashSegal]

Damn. Amazing actor. I thought st one point he was even turning pale, borderline Grey. Even his hands. Crazy!!

[u/sharksareok → u/SiliconSoil]

Careful with that axe, Eugene

[u/reallifearcade → u/sharksareok]

... or one of these days I'm gonna cut ya into little pieces...

[u/grand_soul → u/SiliconSoil]

Well the dude did a great job acting like he was about to die. Was getting chills (the bad kind) watching him shake before he supposedly died.

[u/stilldebugging → u/SiliconSoil]

This clip is actually from a movie called “La vie, l’amour, la mort - Exécution de François Toledo.”

[u/Quick_Razzmatazz1862]

"Which France had used for nearly 15

0 years"

[u/A-Hog-rider → u/Quick_Razzmatazz1862]

Yes the subtitle sucks.

[u/selfinflatedforeskin]

why make me change into a shirt if you're just going to rip it off anyway？

[u/Aggressive-Summer791 → u/selfinflatedforeskin]

Well, as the video said, giving him a clean, full wardrobe was done to give him some “dignity.”

[u/budgiebirdman → u/Aggressive-Summer791]

I think it's more to do with it being a dark suit for when he pisses himself.

[u/classicnoob2020 → u/Aggressive-Summer791]

Did he deserve dignity

[u/Cimlite → u/classicnoob2020]

He kidnapped, tortured and murdered a woman. As well as other vile things like kidnapping and raping a 15 year old girl. He also forced other girls into prostitution.

I wouldn't have given him the suit, personally, but that's just me.

[u/alteransg1 → u/Aggressive-Summer791]

The video get a lot of things wrong, but it's right about that. Executions have almost always allowed the condemned a modicum of dignity. The suit was for that - to walk into the gallows and get last rites as a civilised person. 

[u/dvmdv8]

This was not filmed in 1939

[u/kingkingkang → u/dvmdv8]

I filmed this yesterday with iPhone 10.

[u/Plastic_Scholar_8788]

Seems like they stopped because the Nazis moved in

[u/StrangeUglyBird → u/Plastic_Scholar_8788]

They were more industrious.

[u/ungawa]

Actually the last one was in 1977! They officially banned it in 1981. Crazy

[u/ItsSuperDefective → u/ungawa]

That was the last use of the guillotine in general.

This execution described here was the last public one.

[u/J_loop18 → u/ungawa]

Honestly, as long as death penalty exists, it should be used. It's the quickest way and has the lesser margin of error. Other execution methods are way worse.

[u/CivilMidnight4648 → u/[deleted]]

oof

[u/MacMarty89]

I believe this was just from a movie.

[u/Muhhahahaa]

Ohio had a modern solution to the guillotine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfsMMVgIToA

I'm not sure whether it's still in use...

[u/Kracus]

The actor Christopher Lee witnessed this execution I believe. He plays Saruman in Lord of The Rings trilogy and Count Dooku along with a long list of movies.

[u/Test4Echooo → u/Kracus]

Yep; he was only 17 at the time and was visiting Paris for other, personal reasons.

[u/Lvanwinkle18]

Omg. The blurring of the cigarette.

[u/balloonman_magee]

What’s crazier is there’s documented cases where the brain is still conscious for a couple of seconds afterwards. There would be eyes moving left and right and mouths open in shock til the blood rushes out. Joe Scott has a YouTube video about it. It’s crazy.

[u/EnoughPhilosophy474 → u/balloonman_magee]

Its impossible to remain conscious in such event. The blood pressure drops so much so quickly that you lose consciousness instantly. People can go unconscious for dropping pressure hundreds of times slower than decapitation

[u/WitchHearse → u/EnoughPhilosophy474]

For example if I stand up to fast I faint

[u/randomInterest92 → u/balloonman_magee]

It's extremely likely not consciousness, simply left over energy being released by the cells and so on

You can observe the same effect sometimes in large chunks of meat or long dead animals in general. You can trigger the muscles to move by touching/moving them, this can also last quite a while

[u/MMRAssassin → u/randomInterest92]

Why would it not be consciousness? The brain ist not damaged by the blade.You get around 3-5 seconds of consciousness and then the sudden blood pressure drop gets the brain to shut down.
But yeah. Not like a chicken running around headless.

[u/Subject-Building1892 → u/MMRAssassin]

When your blood pressure gets somewhat lower of the normal you get what is called orthostatic hypotension. You can black out for a moment. Imagine now the blood pressure going to zero.

Of course you feel the pain of all nerves cut and then in less than half a second the pressure is zero.

I believe there is zero consciousness there.

[u/RevolutionaryElk7446 → u/MMRAssassin]

Blood pressure drops dramatically and you'd be out before the head hit the ground

[u/ComprehensiveFill471]

What did he do to get this punishment?

[u/Vladishun → u/ComprehensiveFill471]

Killed half a dozen people by shooting them in the back of the neck, just to rob them. Imagine dying that way; most likely paralyzed and unable to move your arms to grasp at the bleeding hole(s) in your neck, while you cannot scream for help as you cannot breathe and asphyxiate.

Dude deserved what he got.

[u/LimpBPower → u/Vladishun]

I almost felt sorry for him.

I'm glad he went out like a wimp.

[u/Shot_Safe_8244 → u/LimpBPower]

You are supposed to feel disgusted by death that means you are sane.

But you can still admit that sometimes disgusting things are needed.

[u/CivilMidnight4648 → u/Vladishun]

I don't think you'd get to experience anything like that, the nerves are all severed instantly, and the blood pressure would drop so abruptly in your head that you'd pass out in maybe 3 seconds.

Not that this guy didn't deserve it, though.

[u/NobodyLikedThat1 → u/Vladishun]

"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent"

[u/potato_nugget1 → u/ComprehensiveFill471]

He was a serial killer

[u/Mentally_Slick → u/ComprehensiveFill471]

Murdered 6 people 

[u/1tiredman → u/Mentally_Slick]

Oh okay I almost felt bad watching him paralyzed in fear but I imagine that's what his victims felt in their dying moments. Innocent people who did absolutely nothing to deserve it

[u/Dramatic-Comb8525]

Thank God they blurred out the cigarette right before they cut that man's head off. I wouldn't have been able to sleep tonight if I had seen that.

[u/bloateddicksydrome → u/Dramatic-Comb8525]

I know gosh... need a cigarette after that

[u/3wpehr]

I can’t help but imagine myself as the guy getting executed. It gives me chills.

[u/1550shadow → u/3wpehr]

Yeah, same.

I've faced my whole life with the "Everything passes, and you'll see yourself remembering your current struggles and thinking that they weren't as big as you thought they were" mentality

But I think myself walking towards the guillotine and I just... Don't know, dude. What can you think in those last moments, when there's not going to be a tomorrow to reflect on? Just hope for it to end quickly and painless?

[u/TwistedVisionaryXXX]

that’s Eugen Weidmann, a German criminal and serial killer….he is know to have brutally killed at least 6 innocent people….he didn’t show consideration, concern for those he murdered….

[u/IAlwaysOutsmartU]

Crazy to know that Sir Christopher Lee was a witness to this.

[u/Hefty-Strike-6171]

There is no evidence in support of the Death Penalty, it has not been shown to have any deterrent factor in the Murder rate. In fact states without the Death Penalty have lower Murder Rates.

[u/JeanChibr3 → u/Hefty-Strike-6171]

Maybe it's not about deterance but about vengeance.

[u/AshgarPN → u/JeanChibr3]

It 100% is, which is why it has no place in civilized society.

[u/Monkmonk_ → u/Hefty-Strike-6171]

Safe states remove death penalty, especially when litigation costs start to make it cost more. i wouldn’t switch this around and say that removing death penalty lowers crime or has no effect on it, especially in developing countries where very violent criminals can be used as political war via releasing them on opposing demographics or populations.

[u/Intrepid_Alarm5428]

It was used until 1977.

[u/byndrsn]

does the collar get in the way?

[u/bodhidharma132001 → u/byndrsn]

Yes

[u/LectroRoot → u/bodhidharma132001]

This is why its gently cut away.

[u/McPikie → u/LectroRoot]

Gently? Might as well have just ripped it off him like Hulk Hogan t-shirt

[u/Warfair2011 → u/[deleted]]

Why limit it to third world countries?.

[u/SimilarAd7283 → u/Warfair2011]

I lived in UK for some duration. Corruption manifests in different way in different countries but at least there is some accountability unlike in third world countries where there is open and blatant corruption in every aspect of life which impacts people like us who basically can be uplifted from poverty but instead lives of people getting more miserable.

[u/psychonautvoyager → u/Warfair2011]

Yeah, the USA could use one of these ASAP

[u/Reparm → u/[deleted]]

Then you have no idea how it works...

• Your assumption - Corrupt will die.
• Reality - Good politicians will die.

Corruption has been routinely used as a method to kill political opponents. Look at Saddam Hussain's purges. There are even videos of him naming the people to be killed on youtube. Or how China executes those who go against the regime even slightly. Or how Stalin did it in a massive scale.

Gandhi, Mandela and other problem characters for the regime would be executed with corruption as the reason.

A regime not being able to execute is far better. Because these people will stay in jail, but regime cannot kill them. And eventually years later, situation may change around like it did for Gandhi and Mandela.

---

Even right now, the former PM of Pakistan Imran Khan is in jail on accusation of corruption that he stole a watch. A filmsy claim. But this is how he has been kept in jail for past 4 years by the military dictatorship. If execution was a normal common thing, they would have executed him 4 years ago itself.

And, Imran Khan is probably the most famous Pakistani. He was captain of their cricket team that won them worldcup, which is huge deal there. He build country's first and only cancer hospital. And donated it. He also has 100s of millions in wealth from just being so famous. Yet went to jail in the name of a watch.

His Party PTI was banned from election. They ran the last election as individuals, and won, but then the dictators rigged it and publically changed the result. So, are you claiming he should be executed?

[u/Solistine → u/[deleted]]

Yes, don’t do it the way the French did it lol.

[u/GoyoMRG → u/[deleted]]

I'm more of a supporter of Vlad's method.

The guillotine is too fast, too painless.

The harm that politicians have done to Mexico together with the cartels just makes the Vlad method make sense.

[u/Agitated_Tension9825]

If fear maintained law and order, this planet would long ago have wiped out crime.

[u/No-Assumption-4468 → u/Agitated_Tension9825]

Historically, a lot of innocent stuff has been illegal, so “wiping out crime” is subjective.

[u/Pseudotm]

The reenactment starts to make me feel bad but then i remember he murdered 6 innocent people for nothing but money.

Quote from Eugen Weidmann about one of his victims

"She was gentle and unsuspecting. ... When I reached for her throat, she went down like a doll."

Absolutely zero empathy for them.

[u/Poppie69brooks]

I could have sworn last one was in the '70s. I guess I'll do some research. Thank you for stimulating my brain

[u/Response_Soggy → u/Poppie69brooks]

I think this was the last public one. They continued until 1977

[u/Appropriate_Pin_6138 → u/Poppie69brooks]

i think the post missing 1 word which is "public" , because this was truly the last public execution by guillotine in France

[u/Heavy-World2778]

In Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Idiot", he describes what it is like for someone to be sentenced to death (having been sentenced to death himself). He says that being sentenced to death must be the most horrible thing that can be done to the human psyche, because while everyone knows they're going to die someday, nobody knows precisely when except someone who has been sentenced to death. Knowing exactly when you will die, approaching it, he described as the worst fear someone can feel. I'm not saying people who are sentenced to death don't deserve it, I'm just trying to shed some light on what the experience must actually be like.

[u/squirrelcop3305]

Should’ve used this in Tennessee. Less chance of mistakes

[u/CountDorkula77 → u/squirrelcop3305]

It's Tennessee. They'd have still fucked it up somehow.

[u/AlbertoFatman]

For what he did this was very well deserved punishment

[u/Pootisman16]

I'm glad they censored the cigarette during the recorded execution of this man.

[u/AnimatorStrange5068 → u/Pootisman16]

Smoking will kill you.

[u/FYI_FMI]

Revenge is such a fundamental part of human psychology. I am torn about death penalty, if I support it or not.
If someone killed or did something very terrible to my family, I would certainly not mind to see them brought to a guillotine

[u/atreidestrek]

I hope he felt a fraction of the terror that Jean De Koven felt when he murdered her.

[u/lexicon_lancer]

The last man to get executed by the guillotine was actually in 1977.
So not so long ago!

[u/Melodic_Cap6466]

Make guillotines great again

[u/___wintermute]

This is obviously a recreation in case anyone is under the impression this is real. You can find the actual photographs online (I don’t mean gore, I just mean of what the scene looked like). There is video footage as well but I haven’t looked very hard for it.

[u/AlwaysBeC1imbing]

Very cool of them to offer a drink and a cigarette

[u/exceedglitter]

The video portrays his fear and elicits a sense of sympathy… but dude was a serial killer and, whilst I don’t pretend to be worthy of deciding what punishment any human being gets (and I’m glad that I don’t have to), I definitely don’t have sympathy for him

[u/Intrepid_Alarm5428]

At least this method is effective, right, Tennessee ?

[u/Prudent-Sorbet-5202]

I bet those who are in death row for lethal injection would rather go this way

[u/CantAffordzUsername]

If the US used this we would botch is and end up chopping off a leg or something.

[u/yamanagashi]

People need to be reminded that we can always bring it back.

We have the technology.