This week, New York metalcore mainstays Stray From the Path released the pointed new single "Guillotine." Even for those unfamiliar with the band's razor-sharp worldview befitting their slicing sonic ...

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 ...

The supreme irony of the guillotine — an irony that caused the good doctor who invented it to brood the rest of his days — is that it was designed for humanitarian purposes. In 1789, as the French ...

You’ve probably seen the guillotine in historical epics and Dickens adaptations. But were you aware that it struck a blow for egalitarianism in more than one way? The French believed the guillotine’s ...

In the eyes of Joseph Guillotin, the guillotine was an invention in the best ideals of the Revolution: humane, equalizing and scientific. Wikimedia Commons By the time Joseph Guillotin died, aged 75, ...