Editing Guillotine (section)

=== Overseas departments and regions of France ===
In the Western Hemisphere, the guillotine saw only limited use. The only recorded guillotine execution in North America north of the Caribbean took place on the French island of [[Saint-Pierre, Saint Pierre and Miquelon|St. Pierre]] in 1889, of Joseph Néel, with a guillotine brought in from [[Martinique]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://grandcolombier.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/zuzaregui.jpg |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-11-21 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201035012/http://grandcolombier.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/zuzaregui.jpg |archive-date=1 December 2017 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> 

In the Caribbean, it was used rarely in [[Guadeloupe]] and [[Martinique]]; its last use in the region was at [[Fort-de-France]] in 1965.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/27/travel/a-bit-of-france-off-the-coast-of-canada.html?pagewanted=all |title=A Bit of France off the Coast of Canada |newspaper=The New York Times |date=27 July 1986|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201135933/http://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/27/travel/a-bit-of-france-off-the-coast-of-canada.html?pagewanted=all |archive-date=1 December 2017 |df=dmy-all |last1=Wren |first1=Christopher S. }}</ref> In South America, the guillotine was only used in [[French Guiana]], where about 150 people were beheaded between 1850 and 1945: most of them were convicts exiled from France and incarcerated within the "bagne", or penal colonies. 

Within the Southern Hemisphere, it worked in [[New Caledonia]] (which had a bagne too until the end of the 19th century) and at least twice in [[Tahiti]].