It may come as a surprise to some that France routinely used the guillotine as its official method of capital punishment until 1977, when Hamida Djandoubi became the last man guillotined in the port ...
Chanting; red, white, and blue banners waving; crowds infuriated; a guillotine carried through their midst: A scene reminiscent of eighteenth-century Paris played out in Puerto Rico on a Tuesday night ...
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”The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer and Paris on the Eve of WWII,” By Mark Braude. Publisher: Grand Central, 415 pages. $27. One half of “The Typewriter ...