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The '''guillotine''' is a [[beheading]] [[machine]] intended to reliably effect the quick and painless [[execution]] of condemned men. The device exists to deliver a humane execution. Hence its conception is opposed wholly to that of devices used to [[torture]] the condemned to [[death]], chief among them the [[Breaking Wheel|breaking wheel]].
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The machine severs the [[head]] from the [[body]] by means of a slashing blow that a heavy, diagonally-edged blade delivers as it accelerates down a pair of channels from a height. Whereas the blow from an executioner's axe or sword must sometimes be repeated to complete it work, the blade of a properly maintained guillotine need ever fall only once.
'''Guillotine''' might refer to:
 
*[[:category:Guillotine]], an [[:category:Beheading Equipment|execution device used for beheading]]
The guillotine enjoys at least some use in [[Dementlieu]], with [[Lord-Governor Bernard Foquelaine]] himself being counted among its victims.
*[[The Guillotine]], a particular, [[cursed]] example of the above machine in [[Dementlieu]]
 
*[[Guillotine (Article)]],the [[netbook article]] in the [[Undead Sea Scrolls 2002]] that describes the cursed guillotine above.
==References==
*[[Mademoiselle Guillotine]], the [[darklord]] of [[Chelleaux]]
[[Gazetteer III]], p. 14.
 
[[Category:Beheading Equipment]]
[[Category:Execution Machine]]
[[Category:Execution Equipment]]
[[Category:Machine]]
[[Category:CL 9]]

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Guillotine might refer to:

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