Editing Guillotine (section)

== Elsewhere ==
A number of countries, primarily in Europe, continued to employ this method of execution into the 19th and 20th centuries, but they ceased to use it before France did in 1977.

In [[Antwerp]], Belgium, the last person to be beheaded was Francis Kol. Convicted of robbery and murder, he received his punishment on 8 May 1856. During the period from 19 March 1798 to 30 March 1856, there were 19 beheadings in Antwerp.<ref>Gazet van Mechelen, 8 May 1956</ref>

In [[Utrecht]], the Netherlands, the first person to be beheaded was Anthony van Benthem, a criminal confined in a mental institution. He killed a cellmate after being called a sodomite. He was executed at Paardenveld on 27 July 1811. Back then, the Netherlands was part of the French Empire, Utrecht being in the [[Zuyderzée]] department.

In Switzerland, it was used for the last time by the canton of [[Obwalden]] in the execution of murderer [[Hans Vollenweider]] in 1940.

In Greece, the guillotine (along with the [[firing squad]]) was introduced as a method of execution in 1834; it was last used in 1913.

In Sweden, beheading became the mandatory method of execution in 1866. The guillotine replaced manual beheading in 1903, and it was used only once, in the execution of murderer [[Alfred Ander]] in 1910 at [[Långholmen Prison]], Stockholm. Ander was also the last person to be executed in Sweden before capital punishment was abolished there in 1921.<ref name="popularhistoria.se">{{cite web|url = http://popularhistoria.se/artiklar/affarside-vanskotsel-och-barnamord-anglamakerskan|title = Änglamakerskan|trans-title = The angel maker|work = Populär Historia|access-date = 1 December 2015|language = sv|last = Bolmstedt|first = Åsa|date = 21 December 2006|publisher = LRF Media|url-status = live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171005050629/http://popularhistoria.se/artiklar/affarside-vanskotsel-och-barnamord-anglamakerskan|archive-date = 5 October 2017|df = dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="hemmetsjournal.se">{{cite journal|url = http://www.hemmetsjournal.se/odenochaventyr/Artiklar/Reportage/Anglamakerskan-i-Helsingborg-drankte-atta-fosterbarn/|title = Änglamakerskan i Helsingborg dränkte åtta fosterbarn|trans-title=The angel maker in Helsingborg drowned eight foster care children|journal = [[Hemmets Journal]]|access-date = 1 December 2015|last = Rystad|first = Johan G.|date = 1 April 2015|language = sv|publisher = [[Egmont Group]]|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151208134759/http://www.hemmetsjournal.se/odenochaventyr/Artiklar/Reportage/Anglamakerskan-i-Helsingborg-drankte-atta-fosterbarn/|archive-date = 8 December 2015|df = dmy-all}}</ref>

In [[South Vietnam]], after the [[Ngo Dinh Diem|Diệm]] regime enacted the 10/59 Decree in 1959, mobile special military courts were dispatched to the countryside in order to intimidate the rural population; they used guillotines, which had belonged to the former French colonial power, in order to carry out death sentences on the spot.<ref>{{cite book | author1 = Nguyen Thi Dinh | author2 = Mai V. Elliott | title = No Other Road to Take: Memoir of Mrs Nguyen Thi Dinh | publisher=Cornell University Southeast Asia Program | year = 1976 | page = 27 | isbn = 0-87727-102-X }}</ref> One such guillotine is still on show at the [[War Remnants Museum (Ho Chi Minh City)|War Remnants Museum]] in [[Ho Chi Minh City]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Farrara | first = Andrew J. | title = Around the World in 220 Days: The Odyssey of an American Traveler Abroad | publisher=Buy Books | year = 2004 | page = 415 | isbn = 0-7414-1838-X }}</ref>

In the United States in 1996, Georgia State Representative [[Doug Teper]] unsuccessfully sponsored a bill to replace that state's [[electric chair]] with the guillotine.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/11/guillotine-death-penalty-lethal-injection-is-cruel-and-unusual-punishment-slicing-off-the-head-is-the-better-way-to-go.html |last=Kruzel |first=John |date=November 1, 2013 |title=Bring Back the Guillotine |work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |access-date=January 30, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/Archives/19951996/leg/fulltext/hb1274.htm|title=Georgia House of Representatives – 1995/1996 Sessions HB 1274 – Death penalty; guillotine provisions|publisher=The General Assembly of Georgia|access-date=2013-10-03|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004235314/http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/Archives/19951996/leg/fulltext/hb1274.htm|archive-date=4 October 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

In recent years, a limited number of individuals have killed themselves using self-constructed guillotines.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/2974083.stm|title=Guillotine death was suicide|date=24 April 2003|work=BBC News|access-date=26 September 2008|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080927212352/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/2974083.stm|archive-date=27 September 2008|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.thenewsherald.com/articles/2007/09/16/localnews/20070916-archive6.txt | title=Man kills himself with guillotine | work=The News Herald | date=16 September 2007 | access-date=11 September 2016 | author=Sulivan, Anne | location=Tennessee | archive-date=19 August 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819084547/http://www.thenewsherald.com/articles/2007/09/16/localnews/20070916-archive6.txt | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/06/russian-suicide-homemade-guillotine/1 | title=Russian engineer commits suicide with homemade guillotine | work=USA Today | access-date=11 September 2016 | author=Staglin, Douglas}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/guillotine-used-for-suicide-1126857.html | title=Guillotine used for suicide | work=The Independent | date=3 December 1999 | access-date=11 September 2016 | author=Buncomber, Andrew | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170102072251/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/guillotine-used-for-suicide-1126857.html | archive-date=2 January 2017 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>