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Who was the last person to be executed with the guillotine, public and private?
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Stevo
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LAST GUILLOTINE EXECUTION
The last public execution by guillotine was on June 17, 1939. Eugen Weidman was executed before a large crowd in Versailles, France.
The last nonpublic use of the guillotine in France, at Baumetes Prison, in Marseilles, was the execution of convicted murderer Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant, on September 10, 1977. France abolished capital punishment on September 9, 1981.
Thu Feb 21 21:02:43 CST 2002
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