Q465589
Hamida Djandoubi
sentenced to death in France
| Bio | Hamida Djandoubi was a Tunisian criminal who was executed by guillotine in France after having been convicted of the kidnapping, torture and murder of Élisabeth Bousquet, a 21-year-old woman whom he had forced into prostitution. Djandoubi was the last person to be executed in France before the abolition of capital punishment in 1981, and the last person to be lawfully executed by beheading anywhere in the Western world.2 |
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| Born | 1949 Sep 221 |
| Died | 1977 Sep 101 |
| Occupation | agricultural worker, femicide, murderer, rapist, torturer1 |
| Cause of death | decapitation · decapitation by guillotine, capital punishment1 |
| Status | Confirmed: Hamida Djandoubi is a 27 Club member |