La guillotine, une invention bien française

Sep 13, 2021 1h 0m

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Synopsis

Forty years after the abolition of the death penalty in France, voted on September 18, 1981, the guillotine remains in the collective imagination as the instrument of the death sentence. This machine, developed during the Revolution to render justice more equal, was presented as progress. Over time, opinion has been divided on the subject of the death penalty, the guillotine becoming the object of man's cruelty, a remnant of an archaic way of dispensing justice and fuelling the many debates around the death penalty and its abolition.

Title	La guillotine, une invention bien française
Companies	Adamis Production
Countries	France
Keywords	death penalty, death sentence, guillotine, cruelty, french government, french history, history and legacy, historical documentary, justice and punishment