Fun Facts:
- On September 10,1977 the last execution by gullotine took place in Marseilles, France, when the murder Hamida Djandoubi.
- Total weight of a guillotine is about 1278 lbs.
- The falling blade has a rate of speed of about 21 feet/second.
- Just the actual beheading takes 2/100 of a second.
- Doctor Joseph Ignace Guillotin introduced the death machine.
- The time for the guillotine blade to fall down to where it stops takes 70th of a second.