Saturday, February 22, 2025

Sic semper tyrannis / king for a day

Better start sharpening your guillotines, kids! 

Some grisly, yet fascinating trivia about the history of the guillotine from the Swiss National Museum can be found here.

Nowadays most Americans are opposed to capital punishment. So why are we executing more people  after the practice had been on a steady decline?

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