Fun fact: the doctor in question was opposed to the death penalty, and proposed the guillotine thinking he could at least make it more humane. He deeply regretted this action and spent the rest of his life campaigning against it. His family was so ashamed that they changed their surname.
Fun fact: the doctor in question was opposed to the death penalty, and proposed the guillotine thinking he could at least make it more humane. He deeply regretted this action and spent the rest of his life campaigning against it. His family was so ashamed that they changed their surname.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Ignace_Guillotin
While I’m still raining on your parade:
https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too
Good article. Long, but good. As it was published in 2019, it references the then current events.
crimethinc is the goat
THANK YOU. The constant glazing of The Reign of Terror on lemmy is sickening. It was named like that for a reason.
I’m gonna blow your mind. We don’t actually want to literally eat rich people either.
We can learn from it, the good and the bad.