I want to celebrate July 14th in the states
here’s a “fun” (read “insane”) fact: France abolished the death penalty in 1981; the last execution by guillotine took place in 1977
And Christopher Lee was in attendance
Fun fact: the doctor in question was opposed to the death penalty, and proposed the guillotine thinking he could at least make it more humane. He deeply regretted this action and spent the rest of his life campaigning against it. His family was so ashamed that they changed their surname.
While I’m still raining on your parade:
THANK YOU. The constant glazing of The Reign of Terror on lemmy is sickening. It was named like that for a reason.
I’m gonna blow your mind. We don’t actually want to literally eat rich people either.
The overwhelming majority of the people guillotined during the French revolution were innocent commoners.
