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...crowds came early to get a good view of such victims as Danton and Robespierre. In all, the guillotine was used some 4,600 times. Public executions were banned in 1939. In the past decade, the blade fell only six times, the most recent in Sept. 1977 when Hamida Djandoubi was dispatched for murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Guillotine Falls | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

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