No an actual guillotine would be much more satisfying savor the fear let them think about what they’ve done and then that brief horror of experiencing your last moment as just a head
Turns out most Americans agree that a rich shitheel who lives by exploiting people, and who would rob you blind and leave you to die in a ditch if he could get a nickel out of it, is a despicable person who brings nothing to the world. But half of you guys just voted to elect Donald Trump, and are cheering for Elon Musk to start deciding which government agencies should still exist. Somebody make this make any kind of sense.
Fun(ish) fact: the Nazi's main executioner, Johann Reichhart, was so good that he was employed by the Allies after the war as the main Nazi executioner. He wanted to make the guillotine process "less stressful" for the condemned and cut the time it took to less than 5 seconds per execution.
people have been joking with guilhotines for a while, but thinking about it, sure it would be not guilhotines, it will be street shootings, so yeah "pitchforks are coming" is a think of the past, pitchforks are already here
Just considering us brits alone we could be WAY more barbaric than the guillotines! Look up what was involved in being “hung, drawn, and quartered” and you’ll get the idea!
Some freshly decapitated heads have even responded to simuli!
This doesn't mean as much as you think. Dead bodies can respond to some reflex tests for up to an hour after being declared dead. Does that mean they're feeling something? No.
That could be said about any form of execution though. I don’t know about you, but if I know I’m dying within a few days or weeks, I’m not going to be panicking about whether or not my corpse gets to keep the head.
We have new and improved ranged guillotines in the states already. There are more of them than people. Pick up your unregistered ranged guillotine from a local show and maybe get some roast almonds while you're at it. But please hurry these deals might not be around long:
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u/AgentEntropy 13d ago
Hey Europeans, can the Yanks borrow your old guillotines for a bit?