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guinness2dear
19 Mar 16 02:52
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Is it still in use in Frogland?

I know 'The Halifax Gibbet' is still in use amomg certain banking institutions so here's hoping...
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Report Foinavon • March 19, 2016 11:13 AM GMT
No, they stopped cutting people in two in the 1970s.
The terrorists will just have to rot in jail.
Report guinness2dear • March 19, 2016 1:07 PM GMT
What a shame..
Report ebulGery • March 19, 2016 2:12 PM GMT
I would like to see the rich introduced to Madam Guillotine myself...

I see them as the true enemies of our society

Still it won't happen in my lifetime..very sad
Report Roquebrune • March 19, 2016 2:16 PM GMT
What would you consider to be "Rich" please?
Report ebulGery • March 19, 2016 2:26 PM GMT
Anymore with more money than me....would be quite a few
Report dunlaying • March 19, 2016 5:33 PM GMT
One of the last to be shortened was Christian Ranucci. A celebrated case covered by a good film and a best selling book by Gilles Perrault called Le Pull-over Rouge. Fascinating stuff. I believe that there is a VM version of the film .
Report ebulGery • March 19, 2016 8:05 PM GMT
I would say it was a bit messy afterwards...but was a good clean death and quite efficient

They got through quite a few in the French Revolution
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