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He was the first person to be executed in the United States in this manner since 1966. The last person to be executed by electric chair without the choice of an alternative method was Lynda Lyon Block on May 10, 2002, in Alabama. The most recent execution by electric chair was of Nicholas Todd Sutton on February 20, 2020, in Tennessee.
Apr 22, 2024 · The primary means of execution in the U.S. have been hanging, electrocution, the gas chamber, firing squad, and lethal injection. The Supreme Court has never found a method of execution to be unconstitutional, though some methods have been declared unconstitutional by state courts. The predominance of lethal injection as the preferred means of ...
Mar 3, 2010 · 1977. The guillotine falls silent. At Baumetes Prison in Marseille, France, Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant convicted of murder, becomes the last person executed by guillotine. The ...
Aug 14, 2013 · The next day, at 8am on 15 August 1963, he was executed as a crowd of more than 300 people gathered outside the jail. The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 suspended the death penalty ...
Djandoubi's death was the last time any Western nation carried out an execution by beheading, as well as the most recent government-sanctioned guillotine execution in the world. See also. Nicolas Jacques Pelletier, the first person to be executed by guillotine in France in 1792, during the French Revolution.
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Josef Jakobs (30 June 1898 – 15 August 1941) was a German spy and the last person to be executed at the Tower of London. He was captured shortly after parachuting into the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Convicted of espionage under the Treachery Act 1940, Jakobs was sentenced to death and shot by a military firing squad.
