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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You don't need a mechanized execution machine to kill three people. You need it to kill the crowd of people.

And historically that's what it was used for. It was used BY the rich AGAINST the poor.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It was pretty much just one of the options used for death penalty from what I understand. Then there's the revolution bit but otherwise it was a state execution method used as late as 1977.