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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 of 21-year-old Élisabeth Bousquet.
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.
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 ...
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.
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; Hervé Cornara (2015) – murder linked to terrorism in Lyon by Yassin ...
[citation needed] The only member state to have performed executions in Europe whilst a Member of the EU or EEC is France, last shooting a prisoner in 1963 and last beheading one with the guillotine in 1977. The death penalty was abolished in France in 1981.
The guillotine remained the official method of execution in France until the death penalty was abolished in 1981. [3] 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 ...
François Ravaillac (1610) assassination of King Henry IV of France. Nikolai Rysakov (1881) assassination of Alexander II. Petr Shevyrev (1887) conspiracy to assassinate Alexander III. Beant Singh (1989) assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Kehar Singh (1989) assassination of Indira Gandhi.