In September 1977, Hamida Djandoubi became the last person executed by guillotine in France and the Western world. The execution took place inside a prison courtyard, away from the public eye.

In 1977, while most of the world had moved beyond public executions, France carried out one final act of an older justice. A man convicted of murder faced the guillotine - a method of execution first ...

PARIS (AP) — France said China has executed a French citizen convicted of drug trafficking after keeping him on death row for more than 15 years. Chan Thao Phoumy, 62, was executed in the southern ...