In South Vietnam, after the Diệm regime enacted the 10/59 Decree in 1959, mobile special military courts dispatched to the countryside to intimidate the rural people used guillotines belonging to the former French colonial power to carry out death sentences on the spot [REF].
In 1996 in the US, Georgia State Representative Doug Teper[REF] unsuccessfully sponsored a bill to replace the state's electric chair with the guillotine [REF].