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Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
French · 1780s
"a physician's name"
a French physician who advocated for a quicker, more humane execution device
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guillotine
English · 1790s
"a device for beheading by a falling blade"
adopted directly as the device became infamous during the French Revolution
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