A guillotine donated by French lawyer Robert Badinter, who fought for the abolition of the death penalty, is on display at Marseille’s Museum of the Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean ...

In September 1977, Hamida Djandoubi became the last person executed by guillotine in France and the Western world. The execution took place inside a prison courtyard, away from the public eye.

For centuries, the guillotine was considered one of the most humane methods of execution. But disturbing reports claimed that severed heads could still move, blink, or even react. Early witnesses ...