Hamida Djandoubi smoked a few cigarettes in the last moments before he was executed by guillotine in a Marseilles prison, the ultimate punishment for killing his former lover, Elisabeth Bousquet.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NANTES, France – A 19th century guillotine in perfect working order goes up for auction in France on Thursday and is expected to fetch up to $82,000, the ...

A common rumor holds that Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the Frenchman who invented the guillotine, was also eventually executed with the device. But as the Dictionary of Eponyms notes, "Dr. Joseph ...

For two weeks in March 1939, as Hitler completed his annexation of Czechoslovakia and Europe braced for war, a lurid murder trial captivated Paris. Eugen Weidmann, a German drifter, had killed six ...

More than four decades after the guillotine was last used in an execution in France, a 150-year-old replica of the device made famous in The Terror that followed the ...

In 1975, Ho Meng-Hwa made the first Flying Guillotine film for the Shaw Brothers Studios and it was a little sensation, introducing the deadliest weapon the martial arts world had ever seen. Although ...

The legacy of this wuxia classic can be found in 'Kill Bill' and the immortal video game character Dhalsim. By Elizabeth Kerr What wuxia fan can forget the first time they saw the red cap land on an ...