The last public execution by guillotine was carried...

The last public execution by guillotine was carried out on June 17, 1939. Eugene Weidmann was executed before a large crowd in Versailles. France then banned public executions, confining them to a prison courtyard, where they continued until 1977. The last non- public use of the guillotine took place at Baumetes Prison, in Marseilles, on September 10, 1977.
Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant convicted of murder, was beheaded. There should have been another in 1981, but the intended victim, Philippe Maurice, was granted clemency.
He obtained parole in March 2000. The death penalty was abolished in France on September 9, 1981, mainly through the efforts of the Socialist Justice Minister of the time, Robert Badinter. Hamida Djandoubi became thus the last person executed in an EU country.