the guillotine was last used in america in 1965.
when was the guillotine last used in america?
1965
the only recorded use of the guillotine in north america took place on the french island of st. pierre in 1889, of basque-born assassin carlos zuzuarregui, with a guillotine brought in from guadeloupe. in the caribbean, it was used more routinely in guadeloupe and martinique, the last time in fort-de-france in 1965.





























in 1996 in the us, georgia state representative doug teper unsuccessfully sponsored a bill to replace that state's electric chair with the guillotine.





























in recent years, a number of individuals have died by suicide using a guillotine which they had constructed themselves.





























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the guillotine was used in nazi germany between 1933 and 1945 to execute 16,500 prisoners, including 10,000 executions between 1944 and 1945 alone. one of these nazi executions was that of sophie scholl, who was convicted of high treason after distributing anti-nazi pamphlets at the university of munich with her brother hans, and other members of the german student resistance group, the white rose. the guillotine was used for the last time in west germany in 1949 (in the execution of richard schuh) and it was last used in east germany in 1966 (in the execution of horst fischer). the guillotine was used in east germany by the stasi between 1950 and 1966 for secret executions.
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