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The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
Abbe Maury, and he in a very imperfect degree. The propositions of Guillotin, indeed, seem to have met with little favor, although several times afterwards debated, and, indeed, when the Constitution of 1791 was under debate, it was proposed to abolish capital punishment altogether, Robespierre himself being a warm advocate of the proposition. When, at last, it was determined to retain it and to substitute decollation, in all cases for hanging, the hereditary executioner of Paris, one Sanson, whose descendants still enjoy the office, suggested difficulties, which ultimately led to the adoption of the guillotine. He seems to have taken into consideration the increased and increasing number of victims; for, in his memorial on the subject, he objects to the use of the sword, because a single execution would so gap it, and blunt its edge, that it would be necessary to grind it before it could be used again. Consequently, where the victims were numerous, it would be necessary to ha