<Li> Death by boiling for counterfeiters . </Li> <Li> Dismemberment for high treason, parricides, regicides . </Li> <P> The first campaign towards the abolition of the death penalty began on 30 May 1791, but on 6 October that year the National Assembly refused to pass a law abolishing the death penalty . However, they did abolish torture, and also declared that there would now be only one method of execution:' Tout condamné à mort aura la tête tranchée' (All condemned to death will have their heads cut off). </P> <P> The guillotine had been proposed as a means of execution in 1789 by Joseph - Ignace Guillotin . The French Revolution marked the end of hanging by requiring all executions to be accomplished by means of the blade, rather than reserving it only for nobles . However, as beheading by a hand - held axe or blade was a comparatively inefficient and unreliable method of execution compared with hanging, the mechanical guillotine was adopted; it was also regarded as a more humane way to take the life of the condemned than earlier messy ways of execution . The device was first used on Nicolas Jacques Pelletier on 25 April 1792 . Guillotine usage then spread to other countries such as Germany (where it had been used since before the revolution), Italy, Sweden (used in a single execution), and French colonies in Africa, French Guiana and French Indochina . </P>

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