Took France a while to catch up though. GUILLOTINE ?? 1977 ???
I would've thought the 1800's !
Hamida Djandoubi was the last person to be executed by guillotine in the Western world, on September 10, 1977 in Marseille, France. Djandoubi was a Tunisian man who was convicted of kidnapping, torture, and murdering 21-year-old Élisabeth Bousquet.