Kapitan-Heneral
The challenge is to create any possible PODs that would have guillotine retained as a form of execution up to the present day by a majority of nations enforcing death penalty.
No need to use nationalist insult.British speaking countries have a too ingranined love for ropes and then, come on, would you adopt the method the "frogs" use?
While France had the civilian death penalty, the guilloutine was the method of choice. The same was true for other European countries (the Federal Republic of Germany still retains ownership of one that was acquired to carry out envisioned death sentences after the end of direct occupation government, but never used because the death penalty was abolished in 1949). It's not that far-fetched to imagine it being more popular. Say the Soviet Union adopts it for symbolic reasons (scientific, clean, revolutionary, egalitarian) and it spreads into the traditions of Warsaw Pact and third world countries from there. With the abolition movement in much of the Western world, that could already constitute the majority of countries today (China alone would account for the majority of instances).
No need to use nationalist insult.
Scotland used it even before the French did. Split the UK at an earlier date and maybe they revert to it from hanging as a matter of Nationalist pride?British speaking countries have a too ingranined love for ropes and then, come on, would you adopt the method the "frogs" use?
It is still a nationalist insult.It is the way brits called (and still call, I have seen this term on Daily Fail comments section) the french.
British speaking countries have a too ingranined love for ropes and then, come on, would you adopt the method the "frogs" use?
British speaking countries have a too ingranined love for ropes and then, come on, would you adopt the method the "frogs" use?
It is still a nationalist insult.
It's possible to imagine that a less turbulent/tumultuous French Revolution without the Reign of Terror/etc. would see the United States adopt the guillotine as a form of Republican execution.
That all gets thrown out come the Old West; nooses are much more convienent for transporting.
That might actually be a point in favour: The guilloutine is a complex and heavy piece of machinery. I cannot be improvised on the spot or quickly assembled the way a noose or a firing squad can. That would make it symbolise the vested authority of legitimate government, due process, and proper concern for the law: Everything a lynch mob is not.
He was making a point about British countries not wanting to adopt something simply because it was seen as French, not actually insulting the French.