The guillotine is synonymous with the terror that followed the French Revolution, but did the machine's inventor really fall victim to his own creation? Myth: Joseph ...

A common rumor holds that Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the Frenchman who invented the guillotine, was also eventually executed with the device. But as the Dictionary of Eponyms notes, "Dr. Joseph ...

A HAMPSHIRE company has been prosecuted for safety failings after two of its workers each had the ends of their fingers sheared off by guillotine machines at work. Both the injured workers’ ring ...

Guillotine is one of the most renowned devices of execution, which became a symbol of judicial execution in France. For its widespread use in the French revolution, when thousands of French ...

Amnesty International can confirm that Iranian authorities used a guillotine machine to amputate the fingers of Pouya Torabi, a man convicted of theft this week. He was later transferred to a hospital ...