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Are there "national styles" of execution? I.e. hanging in Britain and it's empire, guillotine or strangulation in France, electric chair in the USA? How did these develop, and did people in the past associate these unique forms of death with their respective national settings?

by /u/TheophrastusBmbastus in /r/AskHistorians

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