Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician (died 1814)

Joseph-Ignace Guillotin

French physician, politician and freemason (1738 – 1814)

Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (28 May 1738 – 26 March 1814) was a French physician, politician, and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out executions in France, as a less painful method of execution than existing methods. Although he did not invent…