POL SCI 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Military Tactics, Maximilien Robespierre
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Guillotine sat on a committee of law that was charged with carrying out the debate of capital punishment and carrying out the search to perform the capital punishment. There were committed to perfecting the guillotine (been around since 13th century) and science. In feudal times, punishment was seen as carrying out a sentence that would make the execution as degrading and long as possible. In the 1750s a man tried to assassinate louis 15th. So the man was killed pretty gruesomely. They also wanted death to be equal. Guillotine remained in use at france for 2 centuries (1780-1970s) Bicetre hospital provided corpses to perfect the guillotine. Helen lived with her low-level aristocracy family. Late teenage daughter living in south eastern france. She gave birth to the child out of wedlock and then buried it in the corner of the farm. She was guilty of infanticide and sentenced to death, but because she was aristocratic she received a humane execution.
