Guillotine*
In 1789 the guillotine was proposed as the instrument through which the death penalty was to be dealt and received. It was accepted as the only means to give the death penalty and is viewed, to this day, as a bloody symbol for the French Revolution. Article three of the French code of 1791 stated " Every man condemned to death will have his head cut off." Although it was the instrument of so many deaths, the guillotine was considered to be the most humane way of conducting an execution as it would never fail. Executioners were often drunk and would not make it all the way through the neck thus meaning that they had to take multiple swings before the victim would be dead. This method of dealing with crime remained all the way until the nineteenth century, at which point, prosecution methods were generally switched to the loss of rights of wealth.