A guillotine is a historic execution device with a weighted blade that drops to behead a person. Used during the French Revolution for capital punishment, it was intended to make executions swift and class-neutral. Today, it is obsolete; no one benefits, though it remains a symbol of revolutionary justice and state violence.
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