| Those who were guillotined were often from those groups of people on which the government wanted to publicly blame the counterrevolution, such as the clergy and the nobility. |
| Robespierre dared not risk the countercharge of leniency to a former peer, and Biron was guillotined. |
| In 1943, a woman was guillotined for having carried out an abortion. |
| In the name of the Rights of Man, or under that banner, tens of thousands were imprisoned and at least seventeen thousand guillotined between 1792 and 1794 alone. |
| It guillotined so many people because it was a way of cleansing and purifying France, imbuing her with Virtue. |
| The ACT party will most certainly not agree to have our debates guillotined just for question time. |
