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1792 - Approved the use of the guillotine. Easy thing proved to be a lot of merits. Firstly, it did not require skilled labor. He pressed a button - and order. It's not an ax or a sword swing. Second - equalized all the layers. Penalty as the nobles of that of Louis XVI, during the reign of which was approved by this device, and commoners. To execute a long time relied privselyudno, and with this fun tradition was finished only in 1939, when, during the execution of Eugene Weidman, happened neshuteynye excitement. By the way, the custom to raise his head by the hair on the scaffold - it is not an act of celebration, but some of those executed last service. It was believed that after the Beheading head keeps the ability to see for ten seconds. That's raised above the crowd - look, they say, the last time
. Abolish this penalty only in 1977. By the way, after that it is not executed not only in France, but throughout Western Europe