Chapter 80 Guillotine
"Everyone! It is the law of heaven to kill people to pay for their lives, and to pay debts for money! These people murder people for money and rape women. Shouldn't they pay for their lives with their lives?"
"Yes!"
"Kill them!"
"Kill them!"
A wave of shouts echoed Garris's roar. These calls and shouts make people's hair stand on end.
"Charlieson, intentional homicide, death penalty! Executed immediately!"
"Aguil, intentional homicide, death penalty! Executed immediately!"
"Waleed, adultery with a woman is punishable by death! Intentional murder is punishable by death! Both crimes shall be punished simultaneously and shall be executed immediately!"
"..."
After the sentencing of those soldiers, the highlight came.
When it is Ahmed's turn, he has been a tax collector of this land for more than ten years. Because he has a private army, does he need to cover up his evil deeds?
In essence, Ahmed is the grassroots feudal lord of his tax concession area. He is responsible for paying taxes to his superior feudal lord Leonard in exchange for the power to rule this land.
law? Speaking to Ahmed in the villages around Alhadi town, he wanted to laugh.
Because in this land, what Ahmed says is the king's law.
Of course, Ahmed's power relied on force, and when stronger force arrived, a local bully fell apart. No one will miss him, sympathize with him, or support him.
But only after the collapse of its tyranny, the ugliness under the shiny surface will continue to be exposed.
To the feudal lord, the people were the food on the chopping board, and Ahmed was the man who cut the meat with a knife. In addition to extorting taxes, he also loan sharked, robbed men and women, and bought and sold people. Nothing is hidden.
So when Garris sorted out the crimes he had committed, even the death penalty was read out more than a dozen times.
"...Death penalty! Several crimes shall be punished simultaneously and executed immediately!"
As soon as Garris finished speaking, he immediately executed it. On one side of the high platform, a brand new thing had already been erected.
The thing consisted of two tall wooden pillars and a base.
A sharp, beveled blade hangs from the top beam of the wooden post, and the blade slides smoothly down the rails.
The bottom is a flat wooden platform with a groove for placing things so that the blade can fall accurately.
The overall design is simple and rough, which can bring a sense of intimidation to people,
To the Palestinians of the 12th century, this was a brand new machine, a brand new trend.
Its name - Guillotine.
Records of the prototype of the guillotine can actually be traced back to the 13th century.
But it was not until the French Revolution that it truly flourished.
Based on humanistic care, taking into account the prisoners' emotions, and in order to avoid more pain, the French National Assembly designed an efficient guillotine suitable for the French based on beheading machinery from other regions.
Before the advent of the efficient guillotine, the French's death penalty often continued the medieval trend, using wheeling, burning, sawing, and boiling...
The purpose is to torture the prisoner, and even a seemingly clean decapitation often fails because the weapon is not sharp enough or the executioner is emotionally unstable, so that the head cannot be chopped off in one stroke and requires several more chops.
During this period, the suffering and torture that the death row prisoners will encounter are beyond words. Therefore, the emergence of the guillotine is actually a kind of social progress and a kind of humanistic care.
The original French guillotine had a crescent-edged blade, which tended to curl when beheading.
Then it is said that Louis XVI gave guidance on this and changed the crescent blade into a bevel blade.
This statement comes from the memoirs of Mr. Charles-Henri Sanson, the executioner of the Royal Family of France and the senior executioner of the First French Republic, who successfully completed 2918 executions. There are no more records to confirm it.
Nowadays, Garris has promoted the progress of the times, and the most significant results have appeared.
The mature French guillotine came out six hundred years ahead of schedule!
The death penalty is the death penalty, there is no need to make it so fancy, and there is no need to insult the corpse just to vent your anger.
Ahmed, who was gagged, was the first to be pushed to the guillotine. He was still struggling. His previous numbness and resignation had no effect on him now.
If some things are not explained clearly and clearly, Ahmed will not die in peace!
But because of his previous extreme behavior, his mouth had long been gagged with a piece of cloth, and the soldiers escorting him had no regard for how green his life was.
After Ahmed's head was forced into the groove of the base and fixed, he still tried to struggle.
But the executioner on the side was already impatient. He directly pulled the control lever, and the blade slid down the guide rail as fast as lightning, ending the man's life with a harsh whistling sound.
The physical pain Ahmed suffered was insignificant compared to the pain and torture he caused others during his lifetime.
After Ahmed came his eldest son Nabil.
The life that Nabil grew up in was a life of bullying men and women. Under the protection of his father, he did countless evil things. Although he was not as good as Ahmed, it was enough to put him on the guillotine. Take a walk.
Perhaps Nabil from before was still holding on, expressing his disdain.
But after seeing his father's execution, Nabil's legs and feet were still a little weak, but so what?
The blade was lifted again, and Nabil was forced into the groove again.
When Nabil's head fell to the ground, the tax collector family that had dominated this land for hundreds of years was cut off from its inheritance...
Then, one after another, the condemned prisoners were pushed to the guillotine.
The French guillotine from six hundred years later shows the people of this era its efficiency with humanistic care.
The bodies of Ahmed and Nabil, the father and son, were collected and Qairis ordered people to take the bodies to the open space outside the church.
There was Imam Khalid of the Alhadi Town Mosque. He took Ahmed's widow and the two children to preside over a brief Muslim funeral for the father and son.
First, they put on the burial clothes made of white cloth, and then Khalid presided over the funeral ceremony.
"I raise my hand in obeisance to the funeral rites of the deceased, and pray for this man, being devoted to the Lord and facing the Kaaba."
"Allah Aqbal." Everyone attending the funeral shouted in unison.
Due religious respect was given to these condemned prisoners by Gairis.
He didn't want those children to fall into darkness and follow in the footsteps of their elders.
I just hope that this matter will come to an end so that people in this world will no longer be cannibalistic.
[There are no children who have ever eaten people, or are there any? Save the children...】
Third update, I’ll see if I can continue working on the manuscript, but even if it’s finished, it’ll be past 12 o’clock. No need to wait
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