Hamida Djandoubi was the last person in France to be executed by what method, in September 1977?
Hamida Djandoubi Hamida Djandoubi Hamida Djandoubi (; September 22, 1949 – September 10, 1977) was a Tunisian agricultural worker and convicted murderer. He moved to Marseille, France, in 1968 and six years later he kidnapped, tortured and murdered 22-year-old Élisabeth Bousquet, his former girlfriend. He was sentenced to death in February 1977 and executed by guillotine in September that year. He was the last person to be executed in Western Europe and the last person legally executed by beheading in the Western world. Marcel Chevalier served as chief executioner. Born in Tunisia on September 22, 1949, Djandoubi started living in Marseille in
Hamida Djandoubi pre-trial process, Djandoubi eventually appeared in court in Aix-en-Provence on charges of torture-murder, rape, and premeditated violence on February 24, 1977. His main defense revolved around the supposed effects of the amputation of his leg six years earlier which his lawyer claimed had driven him to a paroxysm of alcohol abuse and violence, turning him into a different man. On February 25 he was sentenced to death. An appeal against his sentence was rejected on June 9. In the early morning of September 10, 1977, twelve days before his 28th birthday, Djandoubi was informed that he, like the child murderers