Decapitation is one of the most gruesome executions that have killed tens of thousands of victims dating back in the Medieval Times. Its primitive use of execution were adopted in Italy, Ireland and England, around the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, followed by France in the seventeen hundreds. Although the techniques and goals of decapitation are one and the same, they do not have the same title. Several known devices were called the scottish maiden, the italian mannaia, the halifax gibbet, the fallbrett, and the most popular one of all, the french descendent, the guillotine.
The ancestors of the guillotine was firstly known as the fallbrett, in which was simply constructed with planks of solid oak. In the beginning, it did not have
The ancestors of the guillotine was firstly known as the fallbrett, in which was simply constructed with planks of solid oak. In the beginning, it did not have