In September 1977, Hamida Djandoubi became the last person executed by guillotine in France and the Western world. The ...

1977: France stages its last execution using the guillotine. A Tunisian immigrant living in Marseilles, Hamida Djandoubi, was executed for the torture-slaying of his girlfriend. He had killed her in ...

It may come as a surprise to some that France routinely used the guillotine as its official method of capital punishment until 1977, when Hamida Djandoubi became the last man guillotined in the port ...

It may come as a surprise to some that France routinely used the guillotine as its official method of capital punishment until 1977, when Hamida Djandoubi became the last man guillotined in the port ...

Despite its appealingly gory subject, Mercer's uneven history of the guillotine is too poorly organized to be truly informative. Arriving in rough-and-tumble Marseille in 1968, Tunisian-born Hamida ...

Reports of severed heads reacting angrily to be slapped and shouted at in France after being guillotined fuelled interest in the grisly subject THIS is the astonishing story of the grisly experiments ...

Hamida Djandoubi smoked a few cigarettes in the last moments before he was executed by guillotine in a Marseilles prison, the ultimate punishment for killing his former lover, Elisabeth Bousquet.

Forty years ago this week, France conducted its last execution by guillotine. A handsome Tunisian immigrant named Hamida Djandoubi was led to a bladed contraption and his head placed in the stock ...

It may come as a surprise to some that France routinely used the guillotine as its official method of capital punishment until 1977, when Hamida Djandoubi became the last man guillotined in the port ...

It may come as a surprise to some that France routinely used the guillotine as its official method of capital punishment until 1977, when Hamida Djandoubi became the last man guillotined in the port ...