(Joseph-Ignace Guillotin) 
Born May 28, 1738 Saintes, France. A commune and historic town in western France. Died March 26, 1814 aged 75 years. His Education Irish College, Bordeaux
Reims University, University of Paris. A Physician by trade but he is best known for the Head of it’s class, the Guillotin. 
(OFF WITH HIS, OR HER HEAD) Let’s start somewhere, how about October 10, 1789, he proposed that “the criminal shall be decapitated; this will be done by means of a mechanism.” The “mechanism” was defined as “a machine that beheads painlessly”. His proposal appeared in the Royalist periodical, Les Actes des Apôtres. In all, Guillotin proposed six articles:
(1) All punishments for the same class of crime shall be the same, regardless of the criminal, in other words it matter not who you were King, Queen it’s the don’t give a fuck, who you are. Put your head in there cupcake.
(2) When the death sentence is applied, it will be by decapitation, carried out by a machine
(3) The family of the guilty party will not suffer any legal discrimination
(4) It will be illegal to anyone to reproach the guilty party’s family about his/her punishment
(5) The property of the convicted shall not be confiscated
(6) The head and body of those executed shall be returned to the family if so requested 
(A 2 HEADED TALE) Here’s the story of 2 men who lost their heads one day and later it cost them their heads. I know a lot of head jokes, trust me this will be one 3RD Floor Podcast not to miss. Anyway here is the brief history of our first tale. 
The tale of Auguste Vaillant Born December 27, 1861 Died February 5, 1894, he was not a nice guy and he was French to boot. Who was this nut, he was a French anarchist, most famous for his bomb attack on the French Chamber of Deputies (was a parliamentary body in France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries) on 9 December 1893. The French reaction to this attack was the passing of the infamous repressive Lois scélérates. You know trying to understand French is like trying to understand how O.J. got off. Vaillant tossed the home-made bomb from the public gallery and was arrested immediately. The bomb was so poorly built, the explosion only caused slight injuries to 20 deputies. At his trial in Paris he was defended by Fernand Labori. Vaillant claimed that his aim was not to kill but to wound as many deputies as possible in revenge for the execution of his pal Ravachol. Vaillant was found very guilty and sentenced to no more headaches. He was put to death by the guillotine on February 5, 1894. 
Hamida Djandoubi Born September 22, 1949 French Tunisia Died September 10, 1977 Baumettes prison, Marseille, French Republica. Who is this besides the last to loose his head by Guillotine? 1968, working in a grocery store, he later that year worked as a landscaper but had a workplace accident in 1971 that resulted in the loss of two-thirds of his right leg.
In 1973, a 21-year-old woman named Élisabeth Bousquet, whom Djandoubi had met in the hospital while recovering from his amputation, filed a complaint against him, stating that he had tried to force her into prostitution. Nice guy, what a shithead.
July 3 1974, he kidnapped Bousquet and took her into his home where, in full view of the terrified girls, he beat the woman before poking a lit cigarette all over her breasts and genital area. Bousquet survived the ordeal so he took her by car to the outskirts of Marseille and strangled her and hid the body .
On his return, Djandoubi warned the two girls to say nothing of what they had seen. Bousquet’s body was discovered in a shed by a boy on July 7, 1974. One month later, Djandoubi kidnapped another girl who managed to escape and report him to police. February 25 he was sentenced to death. An appeal against his sentence was rejected on June 9. On the morning of September 10, 1977, twelve days before his 28th birthday, Djandoubi was told that he, like two other pieces of shit child murderers Christian Ranucci beheaded on July 28, 1976 and Jérôme Carrein beheaded on June 23, 1977, received ” a la fuk yew” no reprieve from President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. At 4:40 a.m., he was executed by guillotine at Baumettes Prison in Marseille. 
Well that is some freaking story of the guillotine. We will be diving into this topic head first. (Oh the puns), we should have fun until next time The 3RD Floor Podcast available everywhere you get your podcast @ANCHOR @SPOTIFY iTunes listeners please leave a 5 star review and a comment please thank you see ya soon we’ll be here “JUST HANGIN OUT IN SPACE AND TIME”