FUN FACT : actor Christopher LEE , was in the crowd for this . At the age of 17 -18 . If u don't know who he is , he plays count duku from Star Wars , or more notably, saruman from the lord of the rings
That’s what I mean he murdered these poor people and women that mistook his actions as actual kindness, he was a slimy coward particularly getting off on taking the life of these women that did nothing to deserve it they were preyed on
Most of the still photographs of Weidmann’s execution were originally published in _Life_ magazine. There are also 2 films of this last public guillotining in France.
Hello Clipgatherer - I have seen one of the films you spoke of sir . That is what I thought this would be when I noticed the thumbnail for the video . Maybe there should still be public executions . The public are where the victims come from . We house and feed the prisoners ,, we pay for the prisons and the guards . We foot the bill for everything . Also the public is outraged by what these criminals do , how many familys lives are ruined by these thugs .. So too many won't crowd into see the execution they could hold a lottery allowing only so many , in that way crowds would be supervised and controlled . What I have suggested probably sounds sick and deranged , yet I'll wager that many sane and normal people would attend if for no other reason than that of venting their disgust for the brutality and sorrow these pieces of human waste cause { I'd put in for the lottery } ... Take care Clipgatherer and God bless you & yours ...
I saw that video. It was amazingly efficient. Took 2 seconds. Body rolls off into the coffin, head in the basket. Much more humane than lethal injection and firing squad.
@@LaSouthernGemini - Hahahaha , whichever of us gets in the lottery line first will hold a place for the other .. Have a wonderful day Sir . P.S. - I as well am a Gemini ..
He was tried and convicted and execution by guillotine was the sentence. The guillotine is a very quick way to be executed so how is the execution horrific?
Apparently your brain is still alive for several minutes after decapitation, and so the "victim" would be aware that his head is off of his body and able to see the crowd cheering as the executioner held up his head. Sounds pretty horrifying, but then, if they ended up on the guillotine, they probably deserved it.
@@mamacat63 ....you think ? I would say the thought for weeks, probably months, that you were going to be beheaded would be horrific in the extreme. We cannot begin to imagine the psychological state of the prisoner, though there's a great deal of research on this matter with prisoners on death row and they are at least getting a slightly more civilised execution.
Weidmann reminds me a lot of Ted Bundy. A guy that looked harmless and was allegedly very charming with the ladies. I've also always wondered what the Nazi's thought about this whole ordeal considering Weidmann was a German citizen and this execution occurred just a couole of months before WW2 officially started. Was Weidmann a member of the Nazi Party? Was he anti-Nazi and living in France because he didn't like the regime? I've never heard any opinions given regarding the matter and just wondering if anyone has any answers to these questions....
You might be surprised to know that Hitler loved the guillotine and had around 27,000 people, mostly French underground fighters killed during WW2 with it....What a bloody horrific mess......
Well Winnie the guy was a serial killer so one might think he was a a member of the Nazi party on those credentials alone, but who knows I doubt very much his politics if he had any remembering he was most likely a sychopath with no empathy for anybody or anything but himself, had anything to do with his execution, but as this was the last public beheading in France there were politics surrounding this manner of execution, which of what I've read about it was a surprisingly clean and fast death, which is probably not the way he treated his victims,
It’s said he did express regret for this one woman he squelched, that it was a shame because she was naive and innocent, didn’t deserve to die- or words to that effect. Nazi, Jew, atheist, apolitical… doesn’t much matter. A serial killer will kill serially- ‘it’s what he needs to fully… live’ 👿
There is no record of Weidmann being involved in any political groups or having any political leanings or affiliations. I personally think he did not hold any strong political views one way or the other. He fled to France after committing crimes in Germany... so it's more likely that he was simply seeking refuge in a neighboring country, rather than specifically avoiding Nazi rule. It is also possible that he was concerned about possible conscription which was mandatory in Germany. As for the Nazi's thoughts on Weidmann's execution, it is unlikely that they paid much attention to it.
Ted Bundy fried in the electric chair. Bundy often revisited his dead victims, sometimes performing sex with the corpses until wild animals destroyed the bodies too much to do so. At least 12 severed heads were kept as mementos in his apartment. Weidmann is almost a school boy in comparison. In some ways Bundy's death was worse, jerking about in the chair still conscious as 2000 volts of electricity hit him. While on death row Bundy married and fathered a child. Ridiculous. Bundy's brain was removed and studied. Nothing unusual was found.
There is a picture of the decapitated blood soaked corpse without his head inside a wooden coffin with some French officials smiling for the camera. It's pretty macabre, but you can probably find it if you look hard enough.
@@winnienguyen4420 I have never seen that pic you are referring to. It surely was a different time than today. By the way I have seen a movie of a real execution from Indochina from approx. 1915. 2 men were executed and it was filmed in front of the guillotine!!! Winnie - I guess you are from Vietnam the former Indochina.
If you'd do a little research on the history of the guillotine, you'd see that it was the product of noble intentions. It offered a more humane form of death ( as opposed to slow strangulation by hanging or breaking on the wheel ), as well as giving equality between the classes by having one uniform method. Robespierre and his cronies were responsible for using it as a form of terror and repression. After they were overthrown, it resumed it's intended purpose as an instrument of judicial punishment.
It meant everyone was executed in the same painless way and with a method that was 100% quick and reliable. In pre revolutionary France execution of the rich was quick and painless and for the poor it was often slow and painful. The guillotine was fairer, and more humane than what it replaced. In Nantes for example “counter revolutionaries” were tied together and thrown off a boat in order to slowly drown, . Robbers and murderers were tied to a wheel, all their arms and legs broken, and then slowly strangled. In July 2021 the US Justice department issued a report that 35% of US executions were “botched” and imposed a moratorium on executions until this was fixed. The guillotine was reliable. 100% effective. Execution is terrifying. If you are going to be executed this was more humane than it sounds. I know that sounds bizarre.
@@graemer3657No, I vaguely remember watching a RUclips video a long time ago about a research on decapticated heads. Scientists reported that the beheaded survived up to two or maybe five seconds.
In my country the French had a mobile Guiloteen, It was like a trailer pulled by a truck and they would travell the country side, town to Town. It was quite the social thing, set the machine up and then decide to exicute before or after lunch. My wifes grandfather was murdered in this manner. Her father was 4mths old and never saw his father. His crime was being a communist ?
I've seen the video, and to be honest, I've been surprised by the swiftness of all... it looks so dramatic and ritualistic in movies, but this, from the moment he got out of the door, the moment he was decapitated, it was like 5 seconds.
This was not the first execution to be photographed, nor the first one caught on film. The unruly mob and almost circus like atmosphere is what made the government move all future executions inside the prison walls.
To be fair. Something as barbaric looking as the guillotine was shocking to see being used in public, especially in a highly cultured society like France. You just wouldn't expect it and it was a bit of a novelty. Same for the U.S. with their last public hanging in 1936, which appeared to have even more spectators than this one. I mean basically this kind of public executions should have been left in the 19th century at the very latest. It was just too barbaric for the 20th century with the advent of movies and radio and what not.
@@peaceful3250 Rude? I'd say mildly sarcastic, but one mans sarcasm is another mans rude. No offence intended but it was a breathtakingly obvious statement.
A German being executed in France in 1939 you have to question how guilty he was and if he wasn't just executed for being German especially because was working with 2 people who weren't executed
@@shop-a-holic3194 Yeah I think the adjectives used like " horrific" relates to it being in public and photographable rather than the verdict or sentence
What is interesting is that France last used the guillotine in 1977. Not 1877. A mechanical beheading device often associated with the French Revolution, public execution, and state terror was only abolished around 40 years ago.
A very clever doctor once told me that when this happens the person feels the bang of their head hitting the ground before they die because it takes longer to die than for the head to hit the ground. Amazing to think about.
@@julieclayton-west624No he is not. I happened to watch an ISIS beheading video online. The head spun through the air before hitting the ground. The eyes looked around in stunned shock for about 10 seconds before closing.
Actually, the head does not hit the ground, it falls into a basket. In more traditional executions, the executioner's assistant would grasp the condemned's hair and hold the severed head up to view. The same used to happen with executions by axe. In any case, how would anyone know whether facial movements after decapitation are conscious actions, rather than reflex.
This was in a time when justice was real and sentences were carried out in a quick and proper manner. Today, murderers are released and given conditions like they are three year olds. If you have ever been to Canada, you will see what I mean.
This execution is a bad example. Normally, between the moment when the condemned person was placed against the board, 5 to 7 seconds passed (by Anatole Deibler). this executor was known to be very slow.
I would imagine that the frame has to be totally true to avoid the blade either sticking or catching and not gaining enough momentum.Also it must have to pass between the vertebrate as oppossed to striking the bone.?
There's a reason the guillotine is 4 - 5 meters tall and has a very heavy blade (the blade itself close to 10 kg, and 60+ kg in the weight). The momentum goes through vertabrae just as easily as between them.
Since this date France decrease in problems with justice. Actually the murderers can confess to the crimes and no longer be afraid because at worst they will be in prison (housed and fed) for life paid by French taxes......
??? this entire video is plagiarized almost word for word from the wikipedia article about weidmann. do your own research, this is such lazy videomaking. damn.
I think it is most probably the most humane way to take a person's life. It is painless and instant. It LOOKS horrible, but I think all other methods I have heard of or have seen, are worse.
Actaully it's the least humane method of execution because the brain lives for up to three minutes after decapitation. This was proven at a guillotine execution when the executioner lifted the severed head of the deceased inmate and called his name, three times the eyes opened in response, proving the concept that the brain responded for a time before it actaully died of oxygen starvation. The electric chair is beyond doubt the most humane method of execution because the shock it delivers is so brutally powerful, it causes brain stem death instantly, the condemned is alive one moment, dead the next. The subsequent shocks are to make sure the job is done and actually cooks internal organs to make sure there is no chance of survival. There has only ever been one person who survived the first shock, his name was Willy Francis and that only occurred due to fault in the chair. This is why all modern chairs are tested prior to execution. Francis was executed without a hitch after the fault was corrected. That being said there has never been a botched execution with the chair so far as survival is concerned. The chair has taken the life of every inmate who's sat In one and it is instant. Lethal injection is not as humane as people think either, it has had many botched executions with it.👍
I struggle with this. As a Catholic I see value in not executing people to allow them as much time as possible to save their souls. But I do wonder if the most cold-blooded killers were publicly executed, would it knock some sense into others who are going down an evil path? I don’t know.
And what about the souls of the innocent he destroyed? Do they not matter? He made a choice to murder and for that choice he deserved death. The religious are always coming up with excuses for not punishing those who do great evil in the world. No sympathy for those who were innocent victims. All they do is prattle on about heaven. There is no heaven or hell. What you get here on earth is all there is. You don't get to beg your way into forgiveness by turning to religion. You made a choice, you deal with the consequences of that choice-here. Not in some imaginary place that you feel gives you forgiveness.
@@meezermom1951 Repentance is for this life. You have to repent this side of eternity and not something like an after thought when you have crossed the line from this life to eternity.
@@redmi9834 Again, saying you are sorry is not that big of a deal to those who survive the brutality of the loss of a loved one due to the evil someone else has done. That is why prisons are packed full of religious conversions which really mean nothing or should not. Saying you are sorry after you got caught is really pretty pathetic. Living an honorable life and not doing the crime is better than saying sorry afterwards. Same as a deathbed conversion.
When Weidmann was pushed onto the bascule, it was found to have stuck, and he couldn’t be slid forward. So not to hold things up, Weidmann was shoved forward quickly instead, and his height reduced in an instant. If you watch carefully, you can see him being manhandled roughly and being shoved forward. One of the assistants who positions the victim’s head in place was given a dressing down for being out of place when the blade fell.
The video was horrible enough. But the narrator’s voice was so strange and peculiar. That got my attention more than the video. Who narrated this monstrosity?
The physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin recommended use of this machine as a humane method of execution so I wonder why horrific is capitalised. This execution was witnessed by the actor Christopher Lee and a grainy film shows that from when Weidmann first appears the whole business was over in seconds. Breaking on the wheel is what I would call horrific or burning alive.
Come on the French or the ancient Frank's took down Rome because Rome wouldn't pay them the money or actually give them a country as they promised so yeah and their blood they're kind of badass
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FUN FACT : actor Christopher LEE , was in the crowd for this . At the age of 17 -18 . If u don't know who he is , he plays count duku from Star Wars , or more notably, saruman from the lord of the rings
Can't forget Dracula and was in a metal band 🤘
Lee turned away at the last second..."'I didn't watch, but I heard it all clearly "
He also played Samson the French executioner in French movies of the revolution
The French monarchy didn't get a fair tria it was absolute bedlam. l
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Have to hand it to the french, they really knew how to get ahead
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The ONLY thing he regretted was getting caught.
That’s what I mean he murdered these poor people and women that mistook his actions as actual kindness, he was a slimy coward particularly getting off on taking the life of these women that did nothing to deserve it they were preyed on
Most of the still photographs of Weidmann’s execution were originally published in _Life_ magazine. There are also 2 films of this last public guillotining in France.
Hello Clipgatherer - I have seen one of the films you spoke of sir . That is what I thought this would be when I noticed the thumbnail for the video . Maybe there should still be public executions . The public are where the victims come from . We house and feed the prisoners ,, we pay for the prisons and the guards . We foot the bill for everything . Also the public is outraged by what these criminals do , how many familys lives are ruined by these thugs .. So too many won't crowd into see the execution they could hold a lottery allowing only so many , in that way crowds would be supervised and controlled . What I have suggested probably sounds sick and deranged , yet I'll wager that many sane and normal people would attend if for no other reason than that of venting their disgust for the brutality and sorrow these pieces of human waste cause { I'd put in for the lottery } ... Take care Clipgatherer and God bless you & yours ...
I saw that video. It was amazingly efficient. Took 2 seconds. Body rolls off into the coffin, head in the basket. Much more humane than lethal injection and firing squad.
@@jeffwarren6906 Well said Jeff. I completely agree with your statement. We shall buy a lottery ticket together.
@@LaSouthernGemini - Hahahaha , whichever of us gets in the lottery line first will hold a place for the other .. Have a wonderful day Sir . P.S. - I as well am a Gemini ..
@@LaSouthernGemini if they sold tickets to see babies carved up on bacon slicers you pair of ghouls would be first in line.
When a letter arrived for him at the last minute he said "put it in the basket I'll read it later"
The 1939 execution was witnessed by Orwell and by the actor Christopher Lee
He killed some people himself too.
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He was tried and convicted and execution by guillotine was the sentence.
The guillotine is a very quick way to be executed so how is the execution horrific?
Horrific for the onlookers. Not so much for the executed
Apparently your brain is still alive for several minutes after decapitation, and so the "victim" would be aware that his head is off of his body and able to see the crowd cheering as the executioner held up his head. Sounds pretty horrifying, but then, if they ended up on the guillotine, they probably deserved it.
Just imagine an unsettled soda being opened sideways. That will be the first few seconds.
@@mamacat63 ....you think ? I would say the thought for weeks, probably months, that you were going to be beheaded would be horrific in the extreme. We cannot begin to imagine the psychological state of the prisoner, though there's a great deal of research on this matter with prisoners on death row and they are at least getting a slightly more civilised execution.
How do you, or anybody else know it’s quick ?? Don’t think anyone ever survived it to tell us.
Apparently actor Christopher Lee was in the crowd and witnessed this execution.
Well he was very tall so managed to see above the crowd!!
He was a full “head” above the crowd!
In 1989 he played Charles Henri Sanson, the executioner during the French Revolution
It wasn't Christopher Lee. It was his father.
It was christopher lee
You could say he was nervous, to the point of being beside himself.
at least he quit while he was a head !
I'm sure he thought of himself as a no body 🙄
@@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479 ....that's the price for sticking your neck out !
No wonder 😞
Well, in the basket he was beside himself.
Bien dommage que cela ne se fasse plus...
02:21 little did that guy know, but his mustache style was about to be forever tarnished in a few short years!
Same with Charlie Chaplin
Hitler copied Charlie Chaplin. He was a fan of his films.
Weidmann reminds me a lot of Ted Bundy. A guy that looked harmless and was allegedly very charming with the ladies. I've also always wondered what the Nazi's thought about this whole ordeal considering Weidmann was a German citizen and this execution occurred just a couole of months before WW2 officially started. Was Weidmann a member of the Nazi Party? Was he anti-Nazi and living in France because he didn't like the regime? I've never heard any opinions given regarding the matter and just wondering if anyone has any answers to these questions....
You might be surprised to know that Hitler loved the guillotine and had around 27,000 people, mostly French underground fighters killed during WW2 with it....What a bloody horrific mess......
Well Winnie the guy was a serial killer so one might think he was a a member of the Nazi party on those credentials alone, but who knows I doubt very much his politics if he had any remembering he was most likely a sychopath with no empathy for anybody or anything but himself, had anything to do with his execution, but as this was the last public beheading in France there were politics surrounding this manner of execution, which of what I've read about it was a surprisingly clean and fast death, which is probably not the way he treated his victims,
It’s said he did express regret for this one woman he squelched, that it was a shame because she was naive and innocent, didn’t deserve to die- or words to that effect.
Nazi, Jew, atheist, apolitical… doesn’t much matter. A serial killer will kill serially- ‘it’s what he needs to fully… live’ 👿
There is no record of Weidmann being involved in any political groups or having any political leanings or affiliations. I personally think he did not hold any strong political views one way or the other. He fled to France after committing crimes in Germany... so it's more likely that he was simply seeking refuge in a neighboring country, rather than specifically avoiding Nazi rule. It is also possible that he was concerned about possible conscription which was mandatory in Germany. As for the Nazi's thoughts on Weidmann's execution, it is unlikely that they paid much attention to it.
Ted Bundy fried in the electric chair. Bundy often revisited his dead victims, sometimes performing sex with the corpses until wild animals destroyed the bodies too much to do so. At least 12 severed heads were kept as mementos in his apartment. Weidmann is almost a school boy in comparison. In some ways Bundy's death was worse, jerking about in the chair still conscious as 2000 volts of electricity hit him. While on death row Bundy married and fathered a child. Ridiculous. Bundy's brain was removed and studied. Nothing unusual was found.
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As someone said in the 1978 movie Grease…..”Heyyy, too bad, Eugene!” 😂😂
The filmed execution was from the back of the platform so you actually don’t seen anything but the blade falling and the crowd reaction.
There are two films of this execution. I have seen Them Both here on RUclips. Both you as you say, you dont see “anything”.
There is a picture of the decapitated blood soaked corpse without his head inside a wooden coffin with some French officials smiling for the camera. It's pretty macabre, but you can probably find it if you look hard enough.
@@winnienguyen4420 I have never seen that pic you are referring to. It surely was a different time than today. By the way I have seen a movie of a real execution from Indochina from approx. 1915. 2 men were executed and it was filmed in front of the guillotine!!! Winnie - I guess you are from Vietnam the former Indochina.
@@MrAntonBerg yes sir I am originally from Vietnam. My parents came over to the U.S.around 1975.
@@MrAntonBerg There is one in which yo see the blade fall, and immediately his body pushed off the board into a coffin right beside the device
Thank you
It was never a symbol of morals, it has been always a symbol of terror
If you'd do a little research on the history of the guillotine, you'd see that it was the product of noble intentions. It offered a more humane form of death ( as opposed to slow strangulation by hanging or breaking on the wheel ), as well as giving equality between the classes by having one uniform method. Robespierre and his cronies were responsible for using it as a form of terror and repression. After they were overthrown, it resumed it's intended purpose as an instrument of judicial punishment.
It meant everyone was executed in the same painless way and with a method that was 100% quick and reliable.
In pre revolutionary France execution of the rich was quick and painless and for the poor it was often slow and painful. The guillotine was fairer, and more humane than what it replaced. In Nantes for example “counter revolutionaries” were tied together and thrown off a boat in order to slowly drown,
. Robbers and murderers were tied to a wheel, all their arms and legs broken, and then slowly strangled.
In July 2021 the US Justice department issued a report that 35% of US executions were “botched” and imposed a moratorium on executions until this was fixed. The guillotine was reliable. 100% effective.
Execution is terrifying. If you are going to be executed this was more humane than it sounds. I know that sounds bizarre.
@@graemer3657No, I vaguely remember watching a RUclips video a long time ago about a research on decapticated heads. Scientists reported that the beheaded survived up to two or maybe five seconds.
Very much so.
Horrific are the crimes commited by the accused.
Right about that...my friend...
Oui
That will temporarily be true. But then the state will find it too useful.....
In my country the French had a mobile Guiloteen, It was like a trailer pulled by a truck and they would travell the country side, town to Town. It was quite the social thing, set the machine up and then decide to exicute before or after lunch. My wifes grandfather was murdered in this manner. Her father was 4mths old and never saw his father. His crime was being a communist ?
Which country?
@PoiiPoii I believe Vietnam;;They used them during the Vietnam war.
Communism is a crime in fact
@@paulajames3937not true
@@BulldumbdumbYes,it is look it up;Guillotines in Vietnam; Google it.
Your videos are very informative.
Then decades later one of the crowd members would suffer the same fate by some angry kid from Tatooine.
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A letter had arrived for him,he asked for it to be put in the basket and he'd read it later.
They should have put that gag into a Carry On film.
I've seen the video, and to be honest, I've been surprised by the swiftness of all... it looks so dramatic and ritualistic in movies, but this, from the moment he got out of the door, the moment he was decapitated, it was like 5 seconds.
if it's in RUclips , do you have the link??
@@s0meRand0m129 yes still up ruclips.net/video/jYu_LgO9260/видео.html and ruclips.net/video/vzi9iE_jgfg/видео.html
What is "like" 5 seconds, 4 or 6 seconds?
Christopher Lee was in the crowd, a schoolboy on holiday.
Good afternoon, and Thank You for your videos.
It is widely known that the actor Christopher Lee was present at the execution and did indeed soak a tissue on blood.
He was present from an elevated viewing point. He DID NOT rush to soak anything in blood. You made that up.
He arrived in a red and white 1960's Kombi he stole off some victims i believe? Count Yorga the prick! Peace.
Fake...
@@pouipouicbedeau9664 Woke
"This was a time in which people possessed cameras". Well, thanks for that fascinating nugget of information!
This was not the first execution to be photographed, nor the first one caught on film. The unruly mob and almost circus like atmosphere is what made the government move all future executions inside the prison walls.
Was it necessary to be so rude?
To be fair. Something as barbaric looking as the guillotine was shocking to see being used in public, especially in a highly cultured society like France. You just wouldn't expect it and it was a bit of a novelty. Same for the U.S. with their last public hanging in 1936, which appeared to have even more spectators than this one. I mean basically this kind of public executions should have been left in the 19th century at the very latest. It was just too barbaric for the 20th century with the advent of movies and radio and what not.
@@peaceful3250 Rude? I'd say mildly sarcastic, but one mans sarcasm is another mans rude. No offence intended but it was a breathtakingly obvious statement.
A German being executed in France in 1939 you have to question how guilty he was and if he wasn't just executed for being German especially because was working with 2 people who weren't executed
I think it was because he committed more than one murder
👀 … He was/is a proven murderer! German or not! There was no doubt!!!
@@shop-a-holic3194 Yeah I think the adjectives used like " horrific" relates to it being in public and photographable rather than the verdict or sentence
@@jimredd652 He committed the murders not the others
@@AbysmalSeasoning that is precisely what I said
Where’s the video?
The French government deemed this public execution too barbaric so they outlawed public execution. How is a private execution any less barbaric?
You don’t have hundreds of people cheering and they don’t sell toy guillotines in private
Justicia was served in both cases, 1939 and 1977 or 73.
What a really tedious uninterested commentary style. Like he's so obviously reading from lines!?!?
It’s amazing how clean Paris was back then
What changed…
"Diversity" happened.
What is interesting is that France last used the guillotine in 1977. Not 1877. A mechanical beheading device often associated with the French Revolution, public execution, and state terror was only abolished around 40 years ago.
It was last used on a rapist & murderer!!!!!!
What was horrific , Weizmanns execution , or his brutally murdered victims 😳 ?!..
A very clever doctor once told me that when this happens the person feels the bang of their head hitting the ground before they die because it takes longer to die than for the head to hit the ground. Amazing to think about.
He’s having you on.
@@julieclayton-west624 can you prove that?
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@@julieclayton-west624No he is not. I happened to watch an ISIS beheading video online. The head spun through the air before hitting the ground. The eyes looked around in stunned shock for about 10 seconds before closing.
Actually, the head does not hit the ground, it falls into a basket. In more traditional executions, the executioner's assistant would grasp the condemned's hair and hold the severed head up to view. The same used to happen with executions by axe.
In any case, how would anyone know whether facial movements after decapitation are conscious actions, rather than reflex.
This was in a time when justice was real and sentences were carried out in a quick and proper manner. Today, murderers are released and given conditions like they are three year olds. If you have ever been to Canada, you will see what I mean.
There’s a letter for you? Put it in the basket I’ll read it later…😅😂🤣
Gotta stay focused.. Not a good time to lose your head.
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Why is it they dont show this ???
Why’s he have a bandage around his head ?
I don't think you're meant to pronounce the L's in Guillotine mate. 😭
This execution is a bad example. Normally, between the moment when the condemned person was placed against the board, 5 to 7 seconds passed (by Anatole Deibler). this executor was known to be very slow.
Awesome 👍
He certainly deserved what he got. However, execution in public is somehow wrong in my opinion.
I would imagine that the frame has to be totally true to avoid the blade either sticking or catching and not gaining enough momentum.Also it must have to pass between the vertebrate as oppossed to striking the bone.?
There's a reason the guillotine is 4 - 5 meters tall and has a very heavy blade (the blade itself close to 10 kg, and 60+ kg in the weight). The momentum goes through vertabrae just as easily as between them.
The pronounciation is not Weedy-man. The pronouciation is like Wyde-mahn.
The French are on the cutting edge of practicing justice.
Eugen Weidmann failed to stay one step ahead of the law...
Is that a real person narrating this? Sounds like a robot.
and christopher lee was one of those crowd watching..
did you sing your comments without musical 🎶 🎶 back ground ???
en espérant son grand retour , il y en a qui n'ont rien a faire avec la tête sur les épaules
Exact
La dernière date de 1977 et était largement méritée quand on voit les ravages qui ont suivi au niveau de la criminalité 😮😮😮
Good documentary, pity about the voice over.
What a Horrible souvenir!!
Then they finally decided after the fact that it was too brutal???🤦♀️
He was being executed meanwhile in a galaxy far far away
WAIT - They executed the execution? Headline writer has it dead wrong.
His profile mugshot must have been taken after the first attempt!😂
Since this date France decrease in problems with justice. Actually the murderers can confess to the crimes and no longer be afraid because at worst they will be in prison (housed and fed) for life paid by French taxes......
Can you imagine going to the cafe after seeing that
The audio description on the video isn't working! what's the flipping point of making a video like this if the audio works haphazardly
No problem for me.
??? this entire video is plagiarized almost word for word from the wikipedia article about weidmann. do your own research, this is such lazy videomaking. damn.
Benny hill dolly bird...
What's that in the road?
A head?
Benny.. No no no
What's that in the road ahead
hard to feel sorry for murderers
i see little about their victims on your channel
Horrific execution scene graphic, but less than throwing into boiling water.
With boiling you wont get spurted with blood.
Last I heard that used was by King Henry VIII
@@winnienguyen4420 I have never heard of that. Boiling alive was a method used in the Far East I think.
Should be reinstated
Why is this "horrific"? He got off easy.
These video's are very good but I find the narrators voice really annoying to the point that I can't watch them .
Need this here in Canada, government has gone overboard with ta es and he has turned into a dictator.
I think it is most probably the most humane way to take a person's life. It is painless and instant. It LOOKS horrible, but I think all other methods I have heard of or have seen, are worse.
I think getting rid of death penalty would be the best choice
Actaully it's the least humane method of execution because the brain lives for up to three minutes after decapitation.
This was proven at a guillotine execution when the executioner lifted the severed head of the deceased inmate and called his name, three times the eyes opened in response, proving the concept that the brain responded for a time before it actaully died of oxygen starvation.
The electric chair is beyond doubt the most humane method of execution because the shock it delivers is so brutally powerful, it causes brain stem death instantly, the condemned is alive one moment, dead the next.
The subsequent shocks are to make sure the job is done and actually cooks internal organs to make sure there is no chance of survival.
There has only ever been one person who survived the first shock, his name was Willy Francis and that only occurred due to fault in the chair.
This is why all modern chairs are tested prior to execution.
Francis was executed without a hitch after the fault was corrected.
That being said there has never been a botched execution with the chair so far as survival is concerned.
The chair has taken the life of every inmate who's sat In one and it is instant.
Lethal injection is not as humane as people think either, it has had many botched executions with it.👍
Oh the horror, and only 3 months later WWII officially started.
Somewhere in that crowd @ 5:48 is a young 17 yr-old Christopher (Dracula/Scaramanga) Lee
Years ago you could actually watch the video.
Some people should have quit while they were ahead
They dipped their handkerchiefs in his blood. Hmmm... Maybe now they can clone him...
You? Don't? Have? To? End? Every? Sentence? Or Word? With a? Questionmark?
Are you sure.
I struggle with this. As a Catholic I see value in not executing people to allow them as much time as possible to save their souls. But I do wonder if the most cold-blooded killers were publicly executed, would it knock some sense into others who are going down an evil path? I don’t know.
And what about the souls of the innocent he destroyed? Do they not matter? He made a choice to murder and for that choice he deserved death. The religious are always coming up with excuses for not punishing those who do great evil in the world. No sympathy for those who were innocent victims. All they do is prattle on about heaven. There is no heaven or hell. What you get here on earth is all there is. You don't get to beg your way into forgiveness by turning to religion. You made a choice, you deal with the consequences of that choice-here. Not in some imaginary place that you feel gives you forgiveness.
Well, the law of the old testament given by Yahweh was that wilful murderers were to be put to death.
@@meezermom1951 Repentance is for this life. You have to repent this side of eternity and not something like an after thought when you have crossed the line from this life to eternity.
@@redmi9834 Again, saying you are sorry is not that big of a deal to those who survive the brutality of the loss of a loved one due to the evil someone else has done. That is why prisons are packed full of religious conversions which really mean nothing or should not. Saying you are sorry after you got caught is really pretty pathetic. Living an honorable life and not doing the crime is better than saying sorry afterwards. Same as a deathbed conversion.
@@meezermom1951 you need to relax and learn to cope.
did he have a headache
Fousands of people 🙄
WHAT?! HE SURVIVED?!!!
Wouldn't everyone get covered in blood?
Eliminates the prison's need to buy combs.
When Weidmann was pushed onto the bascule, it was found to have stuck, and he couldn’t be slid forward. So not to hold things up, Weidmann was shoved forward quickly instead, and his height reduced in an instant. If you watch carefully, you can see him being manhandled roughly and being shoved forward. One of the assistants who positions the victim’s head in place was given a dressing down for being out of place when the blade fell.
the assistant who was told of was andre obrecht later to become chief executioner.
2:20 Charlie Chapman is in the house..
Dam horrable
Quit when you are a head
The video was horrible enough. But the narrator’s voice was so strange and peculiar. That got my attention more than the video. Who narrated this monstrosity?
Disgusting!
The physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin recommended use of this machine as a humane method of execution so I wonder why horrific is capitalised. This execution was witnessed by the actor Christopher Lee and a grainy film shows that from when Weidmann first appears the whole business was over in seconds. Breaking on the wheel is what I would call horrific or burning alive.
Because EVERYTHING on you tube is clickbait, or hadn't you noticed?
Was für ein undeutlicher Slang...
They're off their heads
4:30 The execution took place before sunrise nothing like losing your head before breakfast
fake. Indeed, the sun was already up. and that's why the scene could be filmed. the execution was very late.
A quick way, if messy
They didn't muck about
No recidivism.
Come on the French or the ancient Frank's took down Rome because Rome wouldn't pay them the money or actually give them a country as they promised so yeah and their blood they're kind of badass
…and Christopher Lee was there…
Nah.