Guillotine > French Funny for a group of people who now don't believe in the death penalty to invent such a great executing device. Actually, if I had to choose between, electric chair, lethal injection, firing squad, and guillotine, after firing squad, I'd choose the guillotine. (Firing squad comes first, because you have a miniscule chance for survival.......don't know anyone that has survived getting their head cut off.)