the last public guillotining in france was of eugen weidmann, who was convicted of six murders. he was beheaded on 17 june 1939 outside the prison saint-pierre, rue andre mignot 5 at versailles, which is now the tribunal judiciaire de versailles. the proceedings caused "disgusting" and "unruly" behaviour among spectators. the hysterical behavior by spectators was so scandalous that french president albert lebrun immediately banned all future public executions. the final three guillotinings in france before its abolition were those of child-murderers christian ranucci (on 28 july 1976) in marseille, jrme carrein (on 23 june 1977) in douai and torturer-murderer hamida djandoubi (on 10 september 1977) in marseille. djandoubi's death was the last time that the guillotine was used for an execution by any government. time to bring it back and put it back to work.
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