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Guillotine Star Power

Time is a tricky thing. While Star Wars was filming, the guillotine was still being used in France. The device of beheading has since been retired and saved in a museum of the country's brutal history. The last known use of the weapon was in 1977 when a convicted murder and rapist was put to death. Though it was behind closed doors, it was still too gruesome to justify continuing...

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