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  2. Hamida Djandoubi - Wikipedia

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    Shortly afterwards, at 4:40 a.m., Djandoubi was executed by guillotine at Baumettes Prison in Marseille. While Djandoubi was the last person executed in France, he was not the last condemned. [ 8 ] Fifteen defendants were sentenced to die before capital punishment was abolished in France on 9 October 1981 following the election of François ...

  3. Jérôme Carrein - Wikipedia

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    Jérôme Henri Carrein (French pronunciation: [ʒeʁom ɑ̃ʁi kaʁɛ̃]; 2 July 1941 – 23 June 1977) was the second-to-last convicted criminal to be executed by guillotine in France. On 27 October, 1975 in Arleux , Northern France, Carrein, who was the father of five children and often had no fixed abode , an alcoholic , and a tuberculosis ...

  4. Category : People executed by Nazi Germany by guillotine

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    People executed by guillotine at Plötzensee Prison (55 P) Pages in category "People executed by Nazi Germany by guillotine" The following 80 pages are in this category, out of 80 total.

  5. Martyrs of Compiègne - Wikipedia

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    The Martyrs of Compiègne were the 16 members of the Carmel of Compiègne, France: 11 Discalced Carmelite nuns, three lay sisters, and two externs (or tertiaries).They were executed by the guillotine towards the end of the Reign of Terror, at what is now the Place de la Nation in Paris on 17 July 1794, and are venerated as martyr saints of the Catholic Church.

  6. Eugen Weidmann - Wikipedia

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    The "hysterical behaviour" by spectators was so scandalous that French President Albert Lebrun immediately banned all future public executions. (Executions by guillotine continued out of public view until the last such execution, of Hamida Djandoubi on 10 September 1977.) Christopher Lee, who was then seventeen years old, witnessed the event.

  7. Category:People executed by guillotine - Wikipedia

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    People executed by Vietnam by guillotine (1 C) This page was last edited on 18 February 2019, at 05:03 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  8. List of last words (20th century) - Wikipedia

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    — Alfred Jodl, German Generaloberst (16 October 1946), prior to his execution by hanging for war crimes and crimes against humanity (Nuremberg executions) "I hope that this execution is the last act of the tragedy of the Second World War and that the lesson taken from this world war will be that peace and understanding should exist between ...

  9. Beheading video - Wikipedia

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    An unemployed Pennsylvania resident and self-proclaimed militia leader uploaded a 14-minute YouTube video that displayed the severed head of his father, whom he said "is now in hell for eternity as a traitor to this country". Police subsequently confirmed that the father had died and his head had been removed, and charged him with first-degree ...