I mean if you take the guillotine to be a stand-in for retributive violence directed at the elites (which is incidentally not what the actual guillotine was for) then there’s actually a good deal of that historically, though it’s rarely as explicit as—say—the execution of Louis XVI. The assassins of Julius Caesar (among other things, a popular reformist politician at the time) for instance tended to be executed or kill themselves in the subsequent civil war.