<P> Hamida Djandoubi ( Arabic : حميدة جندوبي ‎ ‎ ; September 22 , 1949 -- September 10 , 1977 ) was a Tunisian agricultural worker and convicted murderer . He moved to Marseille , France , in 1968 and six years later he kidnapped , tortured and murdered 22 - year - old Élisabeth Bousquet , his former girlfriend . He was sentenced to death in February 1977 and executed in September that year . He was the last person to be executed in Western Europe and in the European Union and the last person legally executed by beheading in the Western world . Marcel Chevalier served as chief executioner . </P>
<P> Hamida Djandoubi ( Arabic : حميدة جندوبي ‎ ‎ ; September 22 , 1949 -- September 10 , 1977 ) was a Tunisian agricultural worker and convicted murderer . He moved to Marseille , France , in 1968 and six years later he kidnapped , tortured and murdered 22 - year - old Élisabeth Bousquet , his former girlfriend . He was sentenced to death in February 1977 and executed in September that year . He was the last person to be executed in Western Europe and in the European Union and the last person legally executed by beheading in the Western world . Marcel Chevalier served as chief executioner . </P>
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who was the last person to be guillotined
Hamida Djandoubi
Hamida Djandoubi