As the French Revolution begins, Darnay is arrested and brought before a tribunal, where the crimes of his uncle and father are brought to light. He is sentenced to death by guillotine, and bravely accepts his fate.

Who dies in a tale of two cities?

At the end of the novel, Sydney Carton is executed at the guillotine along with many other French prisoners. Although Carton does not make a farewell speech, Dickens ends the novel with imagining what he might have said.

Who kills Charles Darnay?

She schemes to have him arrested and brought to trial, and she dies in the end attempting to murder Darnay's wife, Lucie, and their daughter. It is, then, out of revenge for past wrongs to her family by Darnay's estranged family that Madame Defarge schemes to have him executed.