Capital punishment in France
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Capital punishment in France is banned by Article 66-1 of the Constitution of the French Republic, voted as a constitutional amendment by the Congress of the French Parliament on 19 February 2007 and
Robert-François Damiens being dismembered for his attempted murder on Louis XV.
Robespierre and associates executed 1794
Public execution by guillotine in Lons-le-Saunier, 1897
Hamida Djandoubi
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Hamida Djandoubi was a Tunisian criminal who was executed by guillotine in France after having been convicted of the kidnapping, torture and murder of Élisabeth Bousquet, a 21-year-old woman whom he h
Capital punishment in France
…seven people on death row to life imprisonment. 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. Major French death penalty…
Djandoubi being escorted to his trial at the Cour d'assises d'Aix-en-Provence, February 1977