The guillotine was a mechanical beheading device that was designed to be a painless and more humane means of execution.

a. True

b. False

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Savanna Villegas

1 April, 13:43

The guillotine was a mechanical beheading device that was designed to be a painless and more humane means of execution.

a. True

b. False

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Cassandra Macdonald · Answer 1

This is A. True.

The guillotine is commonly connected to the period of the French revolution, but it's usage persisted even into the modern era, with the last person guillotined in France in 1977, for years before the abolition of the capital punishment.

The guillotine was a mechanical beheading device that was designed to be a painless and more humane means of execution.a. Trueb. False

The guillotine was a mechanical beheading device that was designed to be a painless and more humane means of execution.

a. True

b. False