Who is Joseph Ignace Guillotin from Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and what is their importance? Stiff:_The_Curious_Lives_of_Human_Cadavers English & Literature Joseph Ignace Guillotin | Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Joseph Ignace Guillotin is the man after whom the Guillotine was named. He initially supported the Guillotine as a humane form of execution, but later withdrew his support when he began to suspect that a severed human head remained conscious for several seconds after decapitation.