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To: fso301

A scaffold can hold a guillotine as well as a gallows.


11 posted on 02/21/2013 3:56:35 PM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
A scaffold can hold a guillotine as well as a gallows.

OK. Thanks. But still, I would tend to assume a guillotine would be elevated on a scaffold in the case of public executions whereas Sophie and her brother were executed inside the prison

12 posted on 02/21/2013 4:57:33 PM PST by fso301
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