I live every day under a guillotine blade that's way less merciful. Death from freezing if I don't pay rent, starvation if I can't afford food, diabetes if I can't afford healthy food, PFAS/PFOA cancer if I do nothing at all anywhere. Those people are murdering me for profit instead of some crime. Their guillotine blade is hovering over the entire planet within my artificially-shortened lifetime. Turning that blade on them directly would be the most merciful response possible. Any alternative I can think of begins with lining every road with crosses.
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Seems like it'd get all gunked up.
Lubricated.
Fun fact: The french last executioned someone with a guillotine while the original Star Wars was in theatres in 1977.
Every time I hear this factoid, people have always compared it with the Star Wars movies. I wonder why nothing else
interestingly the last public one was in 1939 and there's video of the event, also Christopher Lee said he was there.
If for no other reason, it has the best theme song of any execution method: The Guillotine by The Coup
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The people yearn for the 
It should have never left us
brother we should bring back drawing and quartering let alone the guillotine
Stick them on a pike
I propose we bring back Tito's favorite method. 
I think firing squads are way funnier. I watch shark tank with my friends and whenever one of the sharks (except Lori who I have a crush on) says something dumb one of us yells out "shoot that guy"
Hey they wanted us to put all this money into prison labor systems, somebody's gotta use them. Guillotines are a waste of human capital, I'm sure musk is smart enough to swing a hammer