Well, what if?
Similar designs have existed for centuries before the guillotine, BTW.
Now, if the Roman Empire had invented the guillotine...![]()
Now, if the Roman Empire had invented the guillotine...![]()
Then what? I don't see even that doing much.
Clever invention for the era certainly, but hardly game changing in it's own right and it's not as if the Roman's weren't quite good at lopping off heads without it.
Really?They did. It was used in Caligula.
Guillotin was pushing for a bill to uniformize all the executions, regardles of the birth of the criminal and regardless of the crime, as long as it was deserving of the death penalty. His device was meant to make the executions more humane for all.the ancient regime will likely still use it only to replace swords in execution of nobility. commoners will be hanged or died by other method.
Guillotin was pushing for a bill to uniformize all the executions, regardles of the birth of the criminal and regardless of the crime, as long as it was deserving of the death penalty. His device was meant to make the executions more humane for all.
So what? Guillotin wasn't a noble so in Pre-revolutionary France no one important would care. If invented earlier, the guillotine would definitely be a privilege (sort of) for the nobility.