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
Djandoubi being escorted to his trial at the Cour d'assises d'Aix-en-Provence, February 1977
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
Hamida Djandoubi
…to death. An appeal was rejected 9 June. On 10 September 1977, Djandoubi was informed early in the morning that, as in the child murderers cases of Christian Ranucci (executed on 28 July 1976) and Jérôme Carrein (executed on 23 June 1977), he had not received a reprieve from President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Shortly…
Ranucci's mugshot
Presidential decision of 26 July 1976 turning down Ranucci's clemency petition