The executioner is using a punching boxing glove instead of a sharp blade for the guillotine. The man next to him is not pleased.
A boxing glove is a less lethal way of hurting someone so using it is pointless in an execution.
Why is he using a boxing glove?
I'm just the anesthesiologist.
scene: the execution grounds description: The executioner is using a punching boxing glove instead of a sharp blade for the guillotine. The man next to him is not pleased. uncanny: A boxing glove is a less lethal way of hurting someone so using it is pointless in an execution. entities: Guillotine, Boxing_glove. caption: I'm just the anesthesiologist.
Prior to execution, e.g., by lethal injection, targets are often sedated. Here, the anesthesiologist for the guillotine is using the tool not for decapitating the person (the execution), but for knocking them out --- he has replaced the blade with a boxing glove which won't kill, but will punch in the face hard enough to make him lose consciousness. It's funny because when guillotines were used, they didn't consider the well-being of the person being executed, but here, they are at least trying to knock him out before executing.