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US Capitol Police arrested 35-year-old Philan-Tam-Duy Le of Julian, California, on August 25 after discovering a guillotine in the bed of his illegally parked pickup truck near the Supreme Court. Le was charged with carrying a dangerous weapon. While investigators review his background to determine his motive, his brother claims the device was a symbolic protest against political figures, not a threat of violence.
A couple from India, who had been worshipping the god Shiva at an improvised temple on their property, committed suicide by decapitating themselves with a homemade guillotine rigged to roll their heads directly into a fire altar as a form of human sacrifice. The couple's two children found their headless torsos when they returned home from visiting their uncle in a nearby village. The case is being investigated as an accidental death, and the victims' bodies were sent to a coroner's office to undergo autopsies.
An Indian couple allegedly died by suicide using a homemade guillotine-like mechanism to decapitate themselves in a sacrificial ritual on their farm in Gujarat. The couple apparently designed the device in such a way that their heads would roll into a fire altar, completing their sacrificial ritual. Police found a suicide note addressed to family members and have launched an investigation. Ritual human sacrifices are not unknown in India, but almost all known cases involve people killing others to please gods, rather than themselves.
An Indian couple allegedly used a homemade guillotine-like mechanism to behead themselves in a sacrificial ritual using fire as a sacred element in Hinduism. Police found a suicide note addressed to family members and have launched an investigation. While ritual human sacrifices are not uncommon in India, almost all known cases involve people killing others to please gods, rather than themselves.