Bring the Guillotine Back to Death Row

The Atlantic ^ | May 2, 2014 | Conor Friedersdorf

[Conan the Librarian]

Not Murat, but Ney. The legend is that all the men missed, he was spirited away by the Duke of Wellington (who had tried to save him from the execution all together) and went to live in North Carolina.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Ney

Marat was killed in Italy after an abortive attempt to retake Naples.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Murat

[Conan the Librarian]

Whoops...Your quote WAS from Murat, but, he wasn’t executed by the Bourbons, it was the Neapolitan King that had him killed.

Ney has a similar line, but, nothing about his face.

I beg pardon.

[TexasRepublic]

Boy, were those guys strict!

[ROCKLOBSTER]

he drank a ganja tea too

But they don't make rope out of ganja tea.

[Hot Tabasco]

there is evidence that the brain still functins for several minutes after decapatation.

But no reports of what its thinking about.......It certainly isn't pain since all nerve endings have been severed.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

It certainly isn't pain since all nerve endings have been severed.

It could be thinking about how beheading is a serious "pain in the neck".

-or-

Ouch, you dropped my damn head on the floor!

[MUDDOG]

As far as I can see from your link to wikipedia, what I said is consistent with it — Murat’s last words, and he was killed by the Bourbons (a branch that ruled Naples).

[Hot Tabasco]

Ouch, you dropped my damn head on the floor!

"""groannnnnn""""""""

[Conan the Librarian]

After the bloomer on my part, I wouldn’t argue.

Thanks for the kindness.

[MUDDOG]

No problem. I’ve always enjoyed reading your informative posts.