They are some of the country's most notorious killers and their crimes shocked the world. Here are their last meals before ...

The 150-year-old replica of a device used for executions was bought on Wednesday by a French millionaire ... question had never been used. The guillotine was last used to behead a convict in ...

Badinter said later he had "never felt so lonely" in fighting capital punishment, which in France was carried out by beheading with the guillotine ... France's last execution had been in ...

Beheading people with the guillotine was the official means of capital punishment in France from the French Revolution until the country's last execution in September 1977. Just before his ...

When he then decides to steal secret documents for a later defection to the West, this results in an unfortunate chain reaction leading to his arrest and ultimately to his execution ...

The site where the Germans were killed, near the town of Meymac Archaeologists have found evidence of a mass execution of German prisoners who were forced to dig their own graves and then shot by ...

He said later he had "never felt so lonely" in fighting capital punishment, which in France was carried out by beheading with the guillotine ... France's last execution had been in 1977 with ...

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Last week he set the fashion in which Germans condemned to Death will be executed. Conqueror Napoleon introduced the French guillotine into Prussia. Last week Captain Göring banished it by decree.

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