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• On This Day in 1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, last man to face a French guillotine.

  September 10, 1977 dawned damp and grey for the citizens of Marseilles, especially those residing in Les Baumettes Prison. All the inmates (and some of the staff) were in a dark mood contemplating the rising of the sun and the fall of executioner Marcel Chevalier’s blade. Inmates of what the French called ‘Death Alley’ were…

  CrimeScribe

  September 10, 2018

  History, True Crime, Uncategorized

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