Guillotine
A device developed in France to inflict the death penalty through decapitation by the dropping of a weighted and sharp metal blade onto the restrained neck of a convict ...
Expanded Legal Definition of Death PenaltyDecapitation The act of beheading a person, usually instantly such as with a large and heavy knife or by guillotine, as a form of capital punishment.
Forms of the death penalty include hanging from the neck, gassing, firing squad and has included use of the guillotine. de bonis non Latin and short for de bonis non administratis.
Anarchist Auguste Vaillant guillotined in France in 1894
The use of formal execution extends to the beginning of recorded history.
An allocation of time motion, or 'guillotine', is to ensure that certain stages of a Bill are completed by a certain date or within a fixed number of sittings.
The act of beheading a person, usually instantly such as with a large and heavy knife or by guillotine, as a form of capital punishment. This form of capital punishment is still in use in some Arab countries, notably Saudi Arabia.
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 See also: Penalty, Term, Death penalty, Convict, Trial
  
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