Jacques Mesrine
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Jacques Mesrine was a French criminal responsible for numerous murders, bank robberies, burglaries, and kidnappings in France, the US, and Canada. Mesrine repeatedly escaped from prison and made inter
Booking photo of Mesrine, taken in 1973
Coup de grâce
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A coup de grâce is a mercy killing in which a mortally wounded person or animal is struck with a weapon or shot with a projectile to kill it quickly and end its suffering, with or without its consent.
Jacques Mesrine
…they seemed to be bursting from his head, as he realised he was trapped. Twenty rounds were fired at point-blank range and Mesrine was shot 15 times. A coup de grâce was then administered with a pistol. Sylvia Jeanjacquot lost one eye and suffered lasting damage to her arm. Her pet dog was killed. French police…
Yell of Triumph, a painting by Alfred Jacob Miller depicting American Indian hunters gathering around a mortally wounded buffalo, and engaging in a victory shout before administering a coup de grâce to the animal with their bows and arrows.
A captive bolt gun for animal euthanasia
When Jesuit priest Miguel Agustín Pro was shot by a firing squad in 1927, he was only wounded, so a soldier shot him point blank in a coup de grâce.