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When did France stop using the guillotine?

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by GoingNowhereSlowlyIsFinallyGoingSomewher on March 3rd, 2008
I watched a program on C&I channel recently about the executioners. If I remember correctly, it stopped when the death penalty in France was abolished in 1981. But it stopped publicly some years before that.
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  by Highlander is semi-retired from AB on March 3rd, 2008
- Just checked it. It seems like the last guillotining in France happened in 1977, still early hey.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine#The_guillotine_retired
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by sm00z on March 3rd, 2008
I believe it was 1939 just before World War II if memory serves me correctly.
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  by Highlander is semi-retired from AB on March 3rd, 2008
- You're welcome. I just found this:
  Weidmann, Eugene
  Convicted for six murders. He was the last person to be guillotined in public in France. On the 17th of June 1939 at 04:32 he was executed outside the prison Saint Pierre rue Georges Clémenceau 5 in Versailles. The building is still there, but it is not a prison anymore, it's the Palais de Justice.
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  by sm00z on March 3rd, 2008
- There's a video on the web showing his last 17 seconds of life, pretty swift justice!
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by royal77 says hello friend on March 3rd, 2008
Free wikipedia:
The guillotine retired
The last public guillotining was of Eugène Weidmann, who was convicted of six murders. He was beheaded on June 17, 1939.
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by Gnome of Kevonia is a Cheerwine junkie on July 18th, 2009
It lasted up to the abolition of the death penalty in late summer 1981, however it was last used on September 10, 1977.
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by dmo_tla on April 22nd, 2009
in 1977
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