Last Guillotine Execution in France: Djandoubi Loses His Head
Hamida Djandoubi's execution by guillotine on September 10, 1977, ended a thousand-year-old method of state killing that had defined French justice since the Revolution. This grim finality forced France to adopt lethal injection and later the electric chair before ultimately abolishing capital punishment entirely in 1981.
September 10, 1977
49 years ago
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