The guillotine’s story in France had begun just a few years prior. In late 1789, during a discussion about reforming the French penal code, physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin proposed a standard ...

Since then, each nun daily offered herself for the salvation of France, praying for peace and ... Upon reaching the guillotine at the Place du Trône Renversé, they renewed their vows.

France's highest appeals court Tuesday rejected restoring "honour" to a man executed in 1957 by guillotine for killing a ...

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 ...