Christian Ranucci
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Christian Ranucci was a French man convicted for the abduction and killing of an eight-year-old girl on Whit Monday 1974. Sentenced to death by beheading on 10 March 1976, Ranucci was the third-to-las
Ranucci's mugshot
Presidential decision of 26 July 1976 turning down Ranucci's clemency petition
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
Christian Ranucci
…in France, and frequently cited as the last due to the notoriety and media frenzy over the case. Ranucci's case greatly influenced the debate over capital punishment in France after the book Le Pull-over rouge (1978) was published by former lawyer and journalist Gilles Perrault. It called Ranucci's guilt into question, 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