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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Invalidated site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - "The Most Gentle of Lethal Methods": The Question of Retained Consciousness Following Decapitation. | Oct 01, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Arab Journals Platform - Development of a Manually Operated Guillotine Cutter (PDF). | Sep 06, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - Blood and Blades: The Gruesome Reality of Witnessing the Guillotine (Video). | Feb 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Essex - Essex Open Access Research Repository - The guillotine: Shadow, spectacle and the terror. | Dec 21, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Wayne State University - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences - Why the guillotine may be less cruel than execution by slow poisoning. | Jun 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - "The Most Gentle of Lethal Methods": The Question of Retained Consciousness Following Decapitation. | Feb 20, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS - A Life Apart: Hasidism In America. | Feb 18, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Crime Museum - The Guillotine. | Dec 10, 2021 | ||
| Media added. | May 06, 2020 | ||
| Added an image of a guillotine. | Mar 15, 2017 | ||
| Mentioned its use during the Reign of Terror. Added the name of its inventor, Dr. Antoine Louis. | Feb 02, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Ultimate History Project - Executions, The Guillotine and The French Revolution. | Aug 02, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: How Stuff Works - People - Guillotine. | Feb 09, 2012 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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