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Lançon-Provence. Date apprehended. 11 August 1974. Hamida Djandoubi (Arabic: حميدة جندوبي, romanized: Ḥamīda Jandūbī; 22 September 1949 – 10 September 1977) was a Tunisian convicted murderer sentenced to death in France. He moved to Marseille in 1968, and six years later he was convicted of the kidnapping, torture and murder ...
Jérôme Henri Carrein (French pronunciation: [ʒeʁom ɑ̃ʁi kaʁɛ̃]; 2 July 1941 – 23 June 1977) was the second-to-last convicted criminal to be executed by guillotine in France. On 27 October, 1975 in Arleux, Northern France, Carrein, who was the father of five children and often had no fixed abode, an alcoholic, and a tuberculosis ...
The final three guillotinings in France before its abolition were those of child-murderers Christian Ranucci (on 28 July 1976) in Marseille, Jérôme Carrein (on 23 June 1977) in Douai and torturer-murderer Hamida Djandoubi (on 10 September 1977) in Marseille. Djandoubi's death was the last time that the guillotine was used for an execution by ...
The last execution took place by guillotine, being the main legal method since the French Revolution; Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian citizen convicted of torture and murder on French soil, was put to death in September 1977 in Marseille. [1]
Jérôme Carrein (1977) – guillotined in Douai for murder; Hamida Djandoubi (1977) – guillotined in Marseille for murder – last execution in France, last execution in Western world to be carried out by beheading, and last execution by guillotine anywhere in the world
13 March – Municipal Elections held. 20 March – Municipal Elections held. 27 June – Djibouti receives its independence from France. 10 September – Hamida Djandoubi's is the last guillotine execution in France (at Marseille) and the last legal beheading in the Western world.
Gary Lee Davis (1997) first post-Gregg execution in Colorado and last execution in Colorado; David Thomas Dawson (2006) most recent execution in Montana; John Dickman (1910) Hamida Djandoubi (1977) last execution in France; Samuel Herbert Dougal (1903) Mrigendra Dutta (1933) Ruth Ellis (1955) last woman executed in the UK
Victims. 6. Span of crimes. July – November 1937. Country. France. Date apprehended. 8 December 1937. Eugen Weidmann (5 February 1908 – 17 June 1939) was a German criminal and serial killer who was executed by guillotine in France in June 1939, the last public execution in France.