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France employed the guillotine as a form of capital punishment until 1977, when Hamida Djandoubi became the last individual to be executed and the last person to be decapitated by a western country.

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France employed the guillotine as a form of capital punishment until 1977, when Hamida Djandoubi became the last individual to be executed and the last person to be decapitated by a western country.

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