<p>"The Guillotine" is a haunting short story told in the first person?about guilt, justice,<br>and a man's last hours staring death in the face. The unnamed narrator stands trial before a French colonial court,<br>condemned for killing his wife's lover. What seems like a simple crime of jealousy unfolds into the tragedy of a man trapped<br>in a system where justice and revenge blur into one.<br>The setting is the infamous penal colony of Cayenne...