Bringing back the guillotine

The Issue

Bring back the guillotine as the standard execution method and bring back public executions for entertainment.

Bringing back the guillotine may sound crazy, but it's certainly better than the current alternative. It's better for prisoners because quickly severing the head is believed to be one of the quickest, least painful ways to die

The guillotine sidesteps any Hippocratic hypocrisy. The layman can operate a guillotine just as well as a doctor. As Hanni Hindi wrote in Slate some years ago, “The prisoner facing the guillotine was placed facedown on a large wooden plank, their head secured in a brace and steadied by an executioner’s assistant known as ‘the Photographer,’ who held onto their hair (or, in the case of bald prisoners, their ears). When everything was in place, a 120-pound blade was dropped from 7 feet in the air, immediately severing the prisoner’s head.” It never misses its mark.

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The Issue

Bring back the guillotine as the standard execution method and bring back public executions for entertainment.

Bringing back the guillotine may sound crazy, but it's certainly better than the current alternative. It's better for prisoners because quickly severing the head is believed to be one of the quickest, least painful ways to die

The guillotine sidesteps any Hippocratic hypocrisy. The layman can operate a guillotine just as well as a doctor. As Hanni Hindi wrote in Slate some years ago, “The prisoner facing the guillotine was placed facedown on a large wooden plank, their head secured in a brace and steadied by an executioner’s assistant known as ‘the Photographer,’ who held onto their hair (or, in the case of bald prisoners, their ears). When everything was in place, a 120-pound blade was dropped from 7 feet in the air, immediately severing the prisoner’s head.” It never misses its mark.

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Petition created on August 17, 2020