Hamida Djandoubi: Difference between revisions

| birth_place = [[Tunis]], [[French Tunisia]]

'''Hamida Djandoubi''' ({{lang-langx|ar|حميدة جندوبي|Ḥamīda Jandūbī}}; 22 September 1949 – 10 September 1977) was a Tunisian convicted murderer [[Capital punishment in France|sentenced to death in France]]. He moved to [[Marseille]] in 1968, and six years later he was convicted of the [[Kidnappingkidnapping]], [[torture]], and [[murder]] of 21-year-old Élisabeth Bousquet. He was sentenced to death in February 1977 and executed by [[guillotine]] in September that year.,<ref name="Zimring2004">{{cite book|author=Franklin E. Zimring|title=The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sRTiBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT33|date=24 September 2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-029237-9|pages=33–}}</ref> and also the last person to be lawfully executed by [[beheading]] anywhere in the [[Western world]], although he was not the last person sentenced to death in France. [[Marcel Chevalier]] served as chief executioner.<ref name="isf">{{Citation | title = Les deux derniers bourreaux français toujours vivants | url = http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2007/09/10/8914-les-deux-derniers-bourreaux-francais-toujours-vivants.html | publisher = La Dépêche du Midi | date = 10 September 2007 }} (French)</ref>

After his arrest and eventual release from custody during the spring of 1973, Djandoubi drew two other young girls into his confidence and then forced them into prostitution for him.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Beadle |first1=Jeremy |last2=Harrison |first2=Ian |title=Firsts, Lasts and Only's: Crime |date=2007 |publisher=Pavilion Books |isbn=978-1-905798-04-9 |page=169 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CQdOF2zxlGgC&dq=Murder+of+Elisabeth+Bousquet&pg=PA169 |language=en}}</ref> On 3 July 1974, he kidnapped Bousquet and took her into his home where, in full view of the terrified girls, he beat the woman before stubbing a lit cigarette all over her breasts and genital area. Bousquet survived the ordeal so he took her by car to the outskirts of Marseille and strangled her there.{{sfn|Mercer|2008}}<ref>{{cite web |title=The Infamous Guillotine Falls for the Last Time {{!}} History Channel on Foxtel |url=https://www.historychannel.com.au/this-day-in-history/the-infamous-guillotine-falls-for-the-last-time/ |website=History Channel |access-date=8 February 2019 |language=en-AU |date=19 June 2016 |archive-date=26 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190426202646/https://www.historychannel.com.au/this-day-in-history/the-infamous-guillotine-falls-for-the-last-time/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

While Djandoubi was the last person executed in France, he was not the last condemned.<ref name = rfi>{{Citation | title = La dernière exécution capitale date de 30 ans | url = http://www.rfi.fr/actufr/articles/093/article_56265.asp | publisher = Radio France internationale | date = 10 September 2007 }} (French)</ref> Fifteen sentences of deathdefendants were ruledsentenced untilto abolition,die thoughbefore no more executions occurred after [[Capital punishment in France#Abolition|capital punishment was abolished in France]] on 9 October 1981 following the election of [[François Mitterrand]], and those previously sentenced to die had their sentences [[Commutation (law)|commuted]].<ref name = nouvelobs>{{Citation | title = Il y a 30 ans, avait lieu la dernière exécution | url = http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualites/societe/20070910.OBS4158/il_y_a_30_ans_avait_lieula_derniere_execution.html | publisher = Le Nouvel Observateur | date = 10 September 2007 | access-date = 10 September 2008 | archive-date = 27 February 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080227015639/http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualites/societe/20070910.OBS4158/il_y_a_30_ans_avait_lieula_derniere_execution.html | url-status = dead }} (French)</ref> Djandoubi's death was the last time any Western nation carried out an execution by beheading, as well as the most recent government-sanctioned guillotine execution in the world.