Hamida Djandoubi smoked a few cigarettes in the last moments before he was executed by guillotine in a Marseilles prison, the ultimate punishment for killing his former lover, Elisabeth Bousquet.

Aljamain Sterling could feel darkness setting in when Youssef Zalal caught him in a guillotine. Sterling (26-5) and Zalal (18 ...

The idea behind the guillotine is this: If you’re going to execute someone, you may as well do it efficiently and humanely, at least by 18th-century standards. Decapitating the condemned with an ax or ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NANTES, France – A 19th century guillotine in perfect working order goes up for auction in France on Thursday and is expected to fetch up to $82,000, the ...

Harb walked down the aisle to the dark organ composition "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" and wore a vintage-style wedding ...