29 August 1981: As France abolishes the guillotine at last, Michael Parkin looks back at its English precursor, the Halifax gibbet
The decision by the French Cabinet to abolish the guillotine has come rather late. Halifax in West Yorkshire dismantled its “guillotine” – known as the gibbet – in 1650.
By one of those curious twists of history Joseph-Ignace Guillotin has been most widely credited with the introduction in 1792 of a clean-death machine. Such a device was known and used much earlier in a number of European countries, and in Halifax at least 400 years earlier.
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