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Uploaded by on Sep 12, 2007

Jan 2004
Fernand Meysonnier is France's last executioner. Over the years, he has helped chop off the heads of 200 people.

In a small village in Provence an old man packs up a selection of terrifying torture instruments. This is M. Meysonnier, chief executioner until the guillotine was axed by the government in 1977. He performed his first execution at 14 and never looked back.

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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  • I wish this had subtitles.

  • subtitles would have been nice.

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  • that sick motherfucker, his fogotten his a murder too!!!

  • @BrotherWoody1

    no problem ;)

  • Thank you!

  • @vladtepes97

    just posted some subtitles ;)

  • @bigphreaking

    just posted some subtitles ;)

  • 3:35

    no, they were all guilty.

    4:10

    the whole guillotine assembled weights 38 killos.

    4:20

    i remember that criminal we executed once, he killed 6 people, 4 adults and 2 kids.

    one year later the uncle of the little girls came to me and said, "i wish you didn't kill him, he's not even suffering anymore, 40 years in jail would have been better"

    Voila ;)

  • @BrotherWoody1 0:40 we rarely changed the blades, all we had to cut was the cervical. it's nothing. 1:50 that was real violent, criminals or not they still were human beings. it haunted me for a while. 2:15 the assistant has great responsibilities when the blade goes down, i had to pull the prisoner's head to make sure the blade didn't miss his neck because of human reflexes. 3:00 the 1st execution i did was real emotional to me, i was gonna take somebody's life.
  • Hahaha, this transcribe audio is hilarious..Especially when the Frenchman is speaking!

  • My French isn't that good. Subtitles????

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