Crusade against the Pope

Chapter 80 Guillotine

"Everyone! Killing someone means paying with your life, and debts mean paying with your money. This is the law of nature! These people killed people for money and raped women. Should they redeem themselves with their lives?"

"Correct!"

"Kill them!"

The shouts echoed the roar of Gellis. These calls and shouts made the hair on the head stand on end.

"Charlesson, intentional homicide, death penalty! Execute immediately!"

"Ajil, intentional homicide, death penalty! Execute immediately!"

"Walid, for raping a woman, death penalty! For intentional homicide, death penalty! Both crimes must be punished immediately!"

"..."

After the soldiers' sentencing, the highlight came.

When it was Ahmed's turn, as the tax farmer of this land for more than ten years, did he need to cover up his evil deeds because he had his own private army?

In essence, Ahmed was the grassroots feudal lord of his tax-farming area. He was obliged to pay taxes to his superior feudal lord, Reynald, in exchange for the power to rule the land.

Law? In the villages around Alhadi, when Ahmed was told this, he wanted to laugh.

Because in this land, Ahmed's word is the law.

Of course, Ahmed's power relies on force, and when a stronger force arrives, the local tyrant will collapse. No one will miss him, sympathize with him, or support him.

It will only continue to expose the ugliness beneath its bright and beautiful surface after its tyranny collapses.

To the feudal lords, the people were the ingredients on the chopping board, and Ahmed was the one cutting the meat with the knife. In addition to extorting taxes, he lent money at high interest rates, robbed men and women, and trafficked in human beings, all of which he did without concealing.

So much so that when Gellis sorted out the crimes he had committed, he even read out the death sentence more than a dozen times in a row.

"…Death penalty! Multiple crimes combined, execute immediately!"

As Garys finished his words and immediately carried out his orders, a brand new thing had already been erected on one side of the platform.

The thing consisted of two tall wooden pillars and a base.

A sharp beveled blade is hung on the top beam of the wooden column, and the blade can slide down smoothly through the guide rail.

The bottom is a flat wooden platform with a groove for placing objects so that the blade can fall accurately.

The overall design is simple and rugged, which can bring a sense of inexplicable deterrence to people.
For the Palestinians in the 12th century, this was a brand new machine and a brand new trend.

Its name – Guillotine.

The earliest records of the prototype of the guillotine can actually be traced back to the 13th century.

But it was not until the French Revolution that it was truly developed and promoted.

Out of humanitarian concern and consideration for the prisoners' emotions, in order to avoid more pain, the French National Assembly designed an efficient guillotine suitable for the French based on beheading machines in other regions.

Before the advent of the efficient guillotine, the French still used medieval methods of execution, such as wheel torture, burning at the stake, sawing, boiling...

Its purpose is to torture the prisoners. Even the seemingly clean and neat beheading often fails because the weapon is not sharp enough or the executioner is emotionally unstable, so the head cannot be chopped off in one go and several chops are needed.

During this period, the suffering and torture that the death row prisoners will encounter are beyond words. Therefore, the emergence of the guillotine is a real social progress and a kind of humanistic care.

The original French guillotine had a crescent-shaped blade, which was prone to curling when beheading.

Then it is said that Louis XVI gave guidance on this and changed the crescent-edge blade into a bevel-edge blade.

This statement comes from the memoirs of Mr. Charles-Henri Sanson, the royal executioner of France, the senior executioner of the First French Republic, who successfully completed 2918 executions. There are no other records to confirm it.

Today, Gillis is driving the times forward, and the most significant results are emerging.

The mature French guillotine came into being six hundred years ahead of schedule!
The death penalty is the death penalty. There is no need to make it so fancy, and there is no need to insult the corpse just to vent your anger.

Ahmed, with his mouth gagged, was the first to be pushed onto the guillotine. He was still struggling. His previous numbness and resignation had no effect on him now.

If some things are not made clear and explained, Ahmed will die with regrets!
But because of his previous extreme behavior, his mouth had been gagged with a cloth, and the soldiers escorting him had no understanding of how green his life was.

After Ahmed's head was forced into the groove of the base and fixed, he still tried to struggle.

But the executioner on the side was already quite impatient, and he simply pulled the joystick. The blade slid down the guide rail as fast as lightning, ending the man's life with a shrill whistle.

The physical pain Ahmed endured was insignificant compared to the suffering and torture he brought to others during his lifetime.

After Ahmed came his eldest son Nabil.

Nabil grew up in a life of bullying men and women. Under the protection of his father, he did countless evil things. Although he was not as bad as Ahmed, it was enough for him to go to the guillotine.

Perhaps Nabil was still holding on there before, expressing his disdain.

But after seeing his father's execution, Nabil still felt a little weak in the knees, but so what?

The blade was lifted up again, and Nabil was forced into the groove again.

When Nabil's head fell to the ground, the tax farmer family that had been dominating this land for hundreds of years was cut off from inheritance...

Then, one after another, the death row prisoners were pushed to the guillotine.

The French guillotine from six hundred years later demonstrated its humanistic and efficient nature to the people of this era.

The bodies of Ahmed and Nabil were collected and Gairis ordered them to be taken to an open space outside the church.

There was Imam Khalid of the Al-Hadi Town Mosque, who took Ahmed's widow and the two children to preside over a brief Muslim funeral for the father and son.

First, he put on a shroud made of white cloth, and then Khalid presided over the funeral.

"I performed the prayers of the deceased, prayed for him, and turned toward the Kaaba with devotion to God."

"Allah is Akbar." Everyone participating in the funeral shouted in unison.

Garys gave these death row inmates the religious respect they deserved.

He didn't want those children to fall into darkness and follow in the footsteps of their elders.

I just hope that this matter will come to an end, and people in this world will no longer make cannibalism their life.

[There are no children who have eaten humans, or there are? Save the children...]

　The third update, I will see if I can continue to work on the manuscript, but even if I finish it, it will be after 12 o'clock. No need to wait
　　
　
(End of this chapter)