Why did Nicolas Jacques Pelletier die?

Answer 1

Nicolas Jacques Pelletier was the first person to be executed by guillotine in France on April 25, 1792. He was a convicted highwayman and murderer, and his death sentence was carried out as a demonstration of the newly invented guillotine's efficiency and humanity compared to other execution methods. Pelletier's death marked the beginning of the widespread use of the guillotine during the French Revolution as a more humane and egalitarian form of capital punishment.

Answer 2

He was a highway robber in France and he was the first person guillotined as capitol punishment

Answer 3

Narcisse Pelletier died in 1894.