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Year and method of last execution by country in Europe (jakubmarian.com)
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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wow, Portugal way ahead of the curve. Iceland too, but that might be a size thing.

Did Germany ever do guillotining on it's own, or was it just in the French occupation zone?

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, the Nazis used the guillotine pretty extensively outside of the death camps

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 days ago

TIL. In the movies they just pull out their Luger.