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A Vietnamese American man found out what happens when you bring a real guillotine to Capitol Hill

What the creator described as “conceptual art” has left prosecutors with an unusual question about intent.

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The Rebel Yellow
Sep 09, 2026
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After spending about three months building a functioning guillotine in his family’s backyard in Carlsbad, California, Philan-Tam-Duy Le loaded the roughly 10-foot device onto his pickup and drove it across the country to Washington. When the 35-year-old Vietnamese American tattoo artist made it to Capitol Hill, he was arr…

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