IRAN has sentenced eight men to have their fingers chopped off with a spinning guillotine machine, according to human rights groups. The Islamic Republic is known for its brutal punishments and ...

A common rumor holds that Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the Frenchman who invented the guillotine, was also eventually executed with the device. But as the Dictionary of Eponyms notes, "Dr. Joseph ...

A COMPANY was fined £2,500 after a man had four fingers chopped off by a guillotine. Wesley Dickinson, 22, spent 16 hours in surgery and three weeks in hospital after the accident in May 2008. He had ...

A HAMPSHIRE company has been prosecuted for safety failings after two of its workers each had the ends of their fingers sheared off by guillotine machines at work. Both the injured workers’ ring ...