A common rumor holds that Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the Frenchman who invented the guillotine, was also eventually executed with the device. But as the Dictionary of Eponyms notes, "Dr. Joseph ...

The guillotine used to behead one of Adolf Hitler’s youngest and bravest opponents has been found in the basement of a museum. The discovery has triggered a debate about whether it should now go on ...

Guillotine is one of the most renowned devices of execution, which became a symbol of judicial execution in France. For its widespread use in the French revolution, when thousands of French ...

You’ve probably seen the guillotine in historical epics and Dickens adaptations. But were you aware that it struck a blow for egalitarianism in more than one way? The French believed the guillotine’s ...

A HAMPSHIRE company has been prosecuted for safety failings after two of its workers each had the ends of their fingers sheared off by guillotine machines at work. Both the injured workers’ ring ...