150-year-old guillotine to go under hammer in Paris

PARIS: A 150-year-old guillotine with "a few dents on the blade" will go under the hammer in Paris on Wednesday. The 10-foot (three-metre) tall instrument of execution which was used to dispatch criminals in France until 1977 is in working order. But the Drouot auction house insisted that the model was built as a replica and has never been used to behead anyone.