Capital punishment in France
Executions since 1959
Columns: Executed person | Date of execution | Place of execution | Crime | Method | Under President
Jean Dupont | 14 April 1959 | Paris | Child murder with premeditation | Guillotine | Charles de Gaulle | Abcha Ahmed | 30 July 1959 | Metz | Murder with premeditation | Guillotine | Charles de Gaulle | René Pons | 21 June 1960 | Bordeaux | Matricide | Guillotine | Charles de Gaulle | Georges Rapin | 27 July 1960 | Paris | Murder with premeditation | Guillotine | Charles de Gaulle | Dehil Salah | 1 October 1961 | Paris | Murder with premeditation | Guillotine | Charles de Gaulle | Louis Jalbaud | 7 December 1961 | Marseille | Multiple murders before robbery | Guillotine | Charles de Gaulle | Lt. Roger Degueldre | 6 July 1962 | Ivry-sur-Seine | Treason/Multiple Murders | Firing Squad | Charles de Gaulle | Stanislas Juhant | 17 March 1964 | Paris | Murder after robbery | Guillotine | Charles de Gaulle | Raymond Anama | 17 June 1964 | Fort-de-France | Murder with premeditation | Guillotine | Charles de Gaulle | Robert Actis | 27 June 1964 | Lyon | Murder before robbery | Guillotine | Charles de Gaulle | Mazouz Ghaouti | 27 June 1964 | Lyon | Murder with premeditation | Guillotine | Charles de Gaulle | Lambert Gau | 22 June 1965 | Fort-de-France | Murder with premeditation | Guillotine | Charles de Gaulle | Saïd Hachani | 11 October 1966 | Lyon | Multiple murders with premeditation | Guillotine | Charles de Gaulle | Gunther Volz | 26 December 1967 | Metz | Child murder after rape | Guillotine | Charles de Gaulle | Jean-Laurent Olivier | 11 March 1969 | Amiens | Multiple child murders after rape | Guillotine | Charles de Gaulle | Roger Bontems | 28 November 1972 | Paris | Felony murder, Buffet's accomplice | Guillotine | Georges Pompidou | Ali Benyanes | 12 May 1973 | Marseille | Child murder after attempted murder | Guillotine | Georges Pompidou | Christian Ranucci | 28 July 1976 | Marseille | Child murder after kidnapping | Guillotine | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | Jérôme Carrein | 23 June 1977 | Douai | Child murder after attempted rape | Guillotine | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing