In the U.S., capital punishment is resurgent. What lessons can we glean from France’s successful campaign to abolish it?
A 150-year-old guillotine with “a few dents on the blade” will go under the hammer in Paris on Wednesday. The three-metre tall instrument of execution is in working order. Guillotines were used to ...
Today’s Object of the Week is a 200-year-old mutton bone guillotine, made during the Napoleonic War, can been seen at The National Museum of the Royal Navy in Hartlepool. DURING the Napoleonic Wars ...
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