when did the french stop using the guillotine
Guillotine The guillotine remained Franceâ€™s standard method of judicial execution until as recently as the abolition of capital punishment in 1981.[2] The last person to be executed in France was Hamida Djandoubi, who was guillotined on 10 September 1977.
French First Republic As a result of the spike in public violence and the political instability of the constitutional monarchy, a party of six members of France's Legislative Assembly was assigned the task of overseeing elections. The resulting Convention was founded with the dual purpose of abolishing the monarchy and drafting a new constitution. The Convention's first act, on 10 August 1792, was to establish the French First Republic and officially strip the king of all political powers. The King, by then a private citizen bearing his family name of Capet, was subsequently put on trial for crimes of high treason starting in December 1792. On 16 January 1793 he was convicted, and on 21 January, he was executed by guillotine.[4]