Wow that guillotine and punishment of Theft was extreme. Wonder how many heads got lopped off that were wrongly accused ??
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Wow that guillotine and punishment of Theft was extreme. Wonder how many heads got lopped off that were wrongly accused ??
I’m not sure about wrongly accused, back then it was a lot harder to hide your tracks. A bit of reading on the history below - apparently 100 lost their heads and it was actually dismantled by Cromwell - and recreated in the 1970’s
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Gibbet