Fatal Blow Quotes
The French were carefully watching the events in the American Colonies.
He did not want his executioners to dispatch the victim quickly but make him suffer,
He argued that the device, by decapitating the victim very quickly, was a more humane form of execution than the methods previously used. Ironically, a device that was adopted for human purposes, was used to extreme’s in the French Revolution where tens of thousands of people were killed using this machine—the Reign of Terror.