Paris in the 18th century Picpus. Among those executed in the last great surge of the reign of terror were the eminent chemist Lavoisier (8 May 1794) and the poet Andre Chenier, executed 25 July 1794, just two days before the end of the Terror. On June 8, 1793, at the debut of the new wave of terror, Robespierre presided over the Festival of the Supreme Being in the huge amphitheater on the Champs de Mars which had been constructed in 1790 for the first anniversary of the Revolution; the ceremony was designed by the painter David, and featured a ten-hour parade, bonfires a statue
Execution of Nimr al-Nimr Sheikh Nimr. Boustan Street in Tehran was renamed Nimr Baqir al-Nimr Street soon after the execution. Execution of Nimr al-Nimr Shaykh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr was a prominent Shia cleric in Saudi Arabia who was among 47 people executed on 2 January 2016 for terrorism offences. Others executed included Sunnis who had been convicted of involvement in terror attacks linked to al-Qaeda which took place in 2003. Various demonstrations against the execution of al-Nimr in different countries of the globe have been reporting by the different news channel since his execution. In October 2014, Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court approved a death