<P> In Sweden, where 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 . He was also the last person to be executed in Sweden before capital punishment was abolished in that country in 1921 . Swedish child killer Hilda Nilsson was scheduled to be executed by guillotine in 1917 . She evaded that fate when her death sentence was commuted to life in prison . She hanged herself in prison before the pardon was communicated to her . </P> <P> In South Vietnam, after the 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 and they used guillotines which had belonged to the former French colonial power in order to carry out death sentences on the spot . One such guillotine is still on show at the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City . </P> <P> The only recorded use of the guillotine in North America took place on the French island of St. Pierre in 1889, of Basque - born assassin Carlos Zuzuarregui, with a guillotine brought in from Guadeloupe . In the Caribbean, it was used more routinely in Guadeloupe and Martinique, the last time in Fort - de-France in 1965 . </P> <P> In 1996 in the US, Georgia State Representative Doug Teper unsuccessfully sponsored a bill to replace that state's electric chair with the guillotine . </P>

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