After the death penalty verdict was announced, one of Djandoubi’s lawyers exclaimed _”They already cut off one of his legs! Surely they’re not now_ *_ALSO_* _going to cut off his head?!?”_
Perhaps there is grave injustice in the fact that we can often still see the murderer and his fear/suffering and thus paint him as the false-underdog while the greater terror and suffering of the murdered quickly becomes invisible and almost forgotten. If the woman's body were shown to us, if we could hear her pleas and screams, read descriptions of her sufferings, and hear the mourning of her family and friends, we might feel that this man's relatively quick death, as horrific as it seems to our society, pales by comparison. Honestly, which was truly "brutal?"
I do believe this individual was guilty of murder however the man executed a year before him named Christian Ranucci is actually believed by most to have actually been innocent. I think that's the problem with a lot of the old executions is quite a few of the condemned literally did not even commit the crime.
The guillotine isn't what I would describe as being a brutal death. It's just gross and seems odd that it would be used in the 20th century let alone 1977.
Τhe death penalty is torture no matter the method. What is more, it does not deter crime and it is morally indefencible. Which is why very few of those who support it would willingly become executioners. They all want someone else to do the dirty job.
What about his mental suffering which caused his perception to be out of order, who & what caused his mind to act the way it did, did he return home from a war of some description in a pts state still suffering then someone did him an injustice causing him to do what he did. Bad man 🙄, no individual should be in a pts traumatic state of mind, bad man grrr 🙄🧐🤔
@@winnienguyen4420 yeah the one death by this method I heard that went wrong and he suffered possibly was Marie Antoinette's husband Louis but they were scapegoats too which makes it worse not to mention what the french did to her little son
If people only knew exactly what this monster did, not only to the poor girl he killed, but also others....they would weep. This guy deserved his punishment.
Deserved you say,what caused him to commit his crimes in the first place ? Was he a victim of injustice which traumatized his perception to result in his crime ? Did he endure child abuse as a child which traumatized him permanently causing his perception not to know any better. Oh of course surely it's his own fault if he was victimised by many individuals which caused him to act inappropriate to others & another who have dealt him another injustice, he should know better than to be a traumatized individual & not know any better bad man for being another victim of society. Traumatized or not, wake up bad man for being weak and not healing your mind which others may have caused, bad man 🤔🙄🧐
@@mimfi I'm not making fun, it's a simple question, I don't understand your reply 🙄 & if you make comments in an English dialogue& most replies in English, don't expect others not to either. It's common sense 🤔
I wonder why this guy won't talk so lovingly about the poor girl that was beaten, tortured, had the life choked out of her and was dumped in a shed. Instead, we get to hear about how it was so heart rending that he got to smoke a couple cigs while sipping rum and chatting with his imam until he so rudely had his head removed from his body.
I always find it a bit silly to be upset at someone who is revolted by the murder that is occurring before their eyes and complain that they aren't thinking about some other murder that they did not witness. Humans simply can't have the same emotion for things they haven't witnessed compared to the things they have. Example: How upset have you gotten on behalf of a friend or family member who's been wronged? Can you honestly tell me you've got that same energy for the thousands of abused children used to mine cobalt for the battery that powers your cell phone?
@@lynxis I always find it a bit silly to mourn for a monster with no thought of their victims. It's especially silly since their was only one murder in the story; the young women. There is much more metaphorical difference between Congo cobalt miners and my phone versus this murderer and the woman he likely restored raped and murdered.
@@thomasnewcomb2079 First, two wrongs don't make a right. In cases of capital punishment, instead of one dead person, you now have two. Congrats. Next, calling them a monster is specifically to dehumanize them and it's gross, even in the cases of the worst offenders. An attempt to erase their humanity is just an attempt to justify your own violent impulses. If you're one of the people who think that George Floyds long criminal history has any bearing on that moment where the cop knelt on the back of his neck, then I'd suggest you're part of the problem here. Finally, who's to say this person *didn't* mourn for the victim? But if you've ever witnessed a village take a known killer and watch them stone them until they couldn't move anymore, and then douse them in gasoline and set him on fire before your eyes and if you aren't in some way mortified by the violence, then I'd suggest that a part of you is as much of a monster as the person being killed.
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A person who is hanged can suffer extreme pain for many minutes after they drop. IF the rope snaps their neck (as it is SUPPOSED to) they become paralyzed and show no struggle. BUT that does not mean they are not in a high state of pain from both the cut off of blood to the brain as well as oxygen. If the drop does not break their neck, the pain can be prolonged for many more minutes because their body could react and struggle.
@badguy5554 only if they strangle to death as well some should but the english got it right when they and hanged almost to death and then Drawn and Quartered but only if you murdered someone should you get that I mean murder not self defense or anything less thats torture like what he did to her
@@travelsolo2677 IF their neck wasn't broken by the fall, their spinal cord was still intact and effective in transmitting impulses to the rest of their body. Of course the Spandau Ballet was possible while they slowly died of strangulation.
This guy talks about the brutality of the person being executed well about the victims who they killed and made them suffer. This guy was treated vary humanely but in my book I would have gave him the same death sentence.
I don't think the narrator literally thinks the execution itself was brutal. It's just become the tagline of every video he makes and probably grabs people's attention.
I would have drawn and quartered and disembowled him after hanging him near death but this narrator is only statign what happens not sympathizing with the killer
The image at 5:22 is from the actual, _illegal,_ video of the execution. I found this to be rather strange. French law required the prison officials to release the condemned prisoner from custody just before the executioners took him to the guillotine. He was technically a free man at the time of his execution. The reason being is that the State of France was sworn to protect the health and wellbeing of her prisoners in custody. The execution while in custody would violate this oath.
Not supposed to but if they are living in a non Muslim country it's highly likely they will indulge in it. I've seen many Saudi Arabians come to a U.S. college and immediately start drinking and doing drugs.
you can be muslim and don't follow all the rules. same with others religions. and you will always have people to be more religious , saying you are not a good one.
There's no such thing as a victim of crime, it's victim of society which causes people's minds to be traumatized and brainwashed out of the normal, then caused them to Snap.... Then that's when they act as they wouldn't in the first place. The mind can only take so much imbalance before the universal law of cause & effect comes into play!
Not brutal just gross appearance wise. Few normal people would want to see the bloody aftermath of a guillotine execution no matter how humane or quick the person's actual death is. I even think that many would call the French Revolution a just and needed one if it had not involved the guillotine and so maybe public executions. Just my thoughts.
While for various reasons I am against the death penalty (but in favor of life in prison without parole) to call the guillotine a brutal execution is somewhat silly. Compared to other methods like hanging or even worse the electric chair it was a rather humane way of ending a life with no risk of (painful) failure given the mechanics of the device. If I were to be condemned to death and had to choose the method the guillotine would be close to the top of the list
We have an expression in France that says "When you have no head, you have your legs", It basically means that you have to use your legs when you don't think, like when you forget something at home for example. Back then, there was a TV game show called "the head or the legs", It was like *jeopardy*, only if you got the wrong answer, you could win your point by doing a physical task, so the press called this case "La Tete ou les Jambes" (the head or the legs).
This narrators voice and inflection are irritating to listen to. It lacks emotion, empathy and narrative awareness, that reduces the entire narration into a creepy, cringey nasal drone.
it's not that it matters that Hamida was executed, his was just one death, but the reaction of a modern, civilised mind to barbaric acts ought to be similar to that of the diarist. Well read and informative :)
In the states they randomly insert needles until they think they find a vein and use untested drugs. I don't think it is possible to screw up a guillotine execution that bad.
No, we do not " insert needles until [we] think [we] find a vein" and Fentanyl is a very well tested drug. The individuals that insert the needles are trained phlebotomists and most states have gone to a straight forward one drug megadose of fentanyl. The condemned simply goes to sleep. Fentanyl is used as an anesthetic in major surgeries... as well as being a commonly abused street drug. Such an execution is 10,000xs more humane than any method used by the murderers.
@@ubergeek1968 The last batch of US executions were all botched. And they don't use opioids although it would be better than the current grey market barbiturates because no reputable drug company will sell them to the prison system.
You shouldn't call it a brutal execution, what he did was brutal, La Guillotine as a great executioner, the drum rolls and the condemned's stomach going round and round like a washing machine.
there is always excuses made for the murderer as to why they done these things. excuse for this cold blooded killer was that he had 2/3 of his leg removed and that it must have affected hus mind. BS he killed and totured because he wanted too. for him it was over quick not so for his victims
What about what she did to him, injustice she dealt to him. So he was perhaps traumaized by his ordeal, perhaps he was victimised as a a child with pts, perhaps his misfortune added to it, perhaps the injustice she dealt to him was the final strike causing him to Snapp. Yes there's no excuse for someone Traumatized as a child is there, he should have snapped out of it and known better. Bad man 🤔🧐🙄
@@Oissir do you know? he killed someone so there is no excuses. i have had a lot of bad experiences in my life and i wouldnt even dream of killing someone especially doing those awful things before he murdered her. there is no excuse
@@marybradbury9123 you're presuming everyone reacts the same way in all circumstances are you, what if you were brainwashed by unknown circumstances which resulted you to partake in similar happenings without your consciousness awareness, but you realised during the judgement in many newspapers as opinions varied. Would you accept the verdict?
Imagine... 1960s-1970s France would be associated with art & culture, Jean Luc Goddard films, Sartre, Citroens, student protests, etc... but at the same time some wretched murderer would be getting his head chopped off by a device associated with the French Revolution.
@@jamesfowley4114 The purpose of public executions was never to try and scare the public into being good boys and girls, it was too rob the condemned of his/her humanity and dignity in the last minutes of life by forcing them to face the community where they commuted their crimes and wanted their blood. That is why all executions should be do ne in public view on the six pm news.
@James Fowley Who cares about your leftist ideology! Crime deterrent is not on the table as a variable in execution, its getting rid of the dangerous sociopaths who are a waste of humanity. As for life incarceration without parole, all who support this should be the ones who pay out of their pockets, not all if society!
There is a short film of the actual execution. It was taken by a reporter who had climbed onto the roof overlooking the courtyard. As the guillotine fell. The convicted's body sprung into the air above the platform he was lying on. An involuntary muscle spasm of his whole body from the shock and pain of having his head cut off. So strange to see. The crime he committed was so savage, brutal and cruel. The female victim suffered a horrible death. This guy had become a monster.
That's actually the last public execution in 1939 of Eugene Weidmann you are referring to. After his public execution everything was done behind closed doors. The muscle spasm you are referring to is actually the board tilting over to toss his body into the coffin. That was pretty much the standard procedure for late 19th and 20th century guillotine executions in France.
@@tapsars7911 It was not the Weidmann execution and not the Hamida execution. I have seen a movie of an execution where the body was Thrown up in the air by a mechanisme in the guillotine an into a digged hole. It was on national tv in Denmark some 20 years ago. The program was named European hangmen.
Are you aware of the universal law of cause & effect ? What caused his mind to be imbalanced in the first place to be so aggressive to her, perhaps it was the injustice she dealt to him which caused him to react the way he did. Perhaps his mind was suffering in a traumatic state of mind causing him to react as he did. Some people can only take so much injustice before they explode into rage and imbalance causing them to do things they normally wouldn't if their minds weren't traumatized! Think about that!
it is good to come to criticize the guillotine, to treat this form of execution as "barbaric", it is true that the electric chair, which boils the brain and takes the eyes out of their orbits is much more human, just like hanging and other joys. There is not "clean" execution even lethal injection seems to be painful. As one speaker pointed out, it would still be a good idea to remember the victims, because they are the most to complain about. Perpetrators have chosen their lives, victims have not chosen their deaths.
There's actually a french tv interview with the headsman who carried out this execution that was done in 1998. At the time he was still in possession of the guillotine and the blade that was used for the execution, he showed it too the cameras and pointed out the stains left by hamida's blood.
I suppose that guillotine executions did not require the presence of a physician to pronounce the victim dead. Decapitation results invariably in abrupt death.
08:18 "The guards took out a hose to erase the evidence of the crime"...this is where the narrator lost me. Keep your personal views about the death penalty out and just report the facts. I won't subscribe to this channel.
We should use this in the US and avoid all of the BS over exotic ways of execution. This is obviously quick, relatively cheap, requires no medical involvement and death is very rapid. We should televise the executions.
The guillotine what messy wasn't a brutal way to die it killed with a minimum of pain and quite rapidly. There was some fear but when you consider what this guy had done to his victim I'm not worried about his being afraid. He won a Darwin award by his own actions. The people to feel sorry for are the ones executed by the tribunals during the reign of terror.
It’s bloody but probably not really a brutal death. He would be unconscious inmediately head is cut due to catastrophic loss of blood pressure to the brain. The American lethal injection and electric chair are far more lingering and unpleasant and is still praticed. This was 40 odd years ago.
I read an account of Hamidas execution from a witness. ( A Doctor i think it was?) It was said he was responsive for between 20 to 30 seconds decapitation.. Many accounts of similar senarios had been documented prior. I wonder if this example of yet another "Talking Head" the Govt decided enough was enough.
I was executed back in 2003 . The chips were down , it was on a fry day well, nasty affair it was,blood everywhere,then I woke up with ketchup all over my face. I'm ok now..
What is right and wrong we can all understand, but thing we condemn underlined that one must not harm another so person loses his life. But how is it that we can justify killing someone regardless of the deed? No one has the right to take someone else's life as a private person or state. On the other hand, we should protect other citizens by imprisoning individuals so that the perpetrators cannot harm others.
Final surely means the end, but this is the last, not final execution in France. Who is to say that Madame Guillotine will not raise her ugly head again, There are still plenty of people wishing for a return to capital punishment.
I wondered myself why the fallbeil is included in photos regarding French guillotine executions. The fallbeil was a much shorter machine made up of more metal than wood and all executions in Germany had been behind closed doors never public like in France.
I cannot agree. An antelope torn apart by a lion is cruel. An extended brutality to his victim was cruel. The only cruel part of an execution is the interminable trials and appeals. The prisoner has a lot of time to become scared and unnerved. It is ironic that if executions were summary they may be less just but they would also be less cruel.
Well done to President Francois Mitterrand for abolishing this grisly, barbaric form of punishment. No doubt there will be some sadists and attention-seekers posting here wanting it brought back, but these people are best ignored. These are the kind of people who drink alone in the pub because no one wants to listen to their boring rants, but now unfortunately the internet has given them a worldwide platform to air their toxic views.
He was unfit for society, without question, but the death penalty makes murderers of us all and cheapens what should be held as sacrosanct by those of us who consider ourselves fit for society.
Your comment is incoherent. Are you comparing post WW2 France with Victorian Britain? If so, that is not a comparable situation. Post WW2 Britain voluntarily withdrew from most colonies and worked with those countries to achieve this.
C'est une éxécution horrible, et je pense que cela poursuit tout ceux sui y ont assisté, mais je pense profondément qu'il l'avait mérité. Autant que le docteur Petiot, Landru, Buffet,Bontemps. La Louison est remisée aux oubliettes et la Famille de bourreaux n'existe plus. C'est un temps révolu, mais finalement était -ce vraiment une bonne chose d'abolir la peine de mort en France? Ma conviction personnelle est non. 🇲🇫
I'll bet there are millions of real French citizens that wish the death penalty could still be used to rid their society of criminal m_s_i_ms that are wreaking havoc.
I think they need one that drops a blade about 20 feet...... that way the poor dolp can hear the blade coming down the chute right before his head drops in a bucket. 🤣🤣
You call this brutal, they gave Hamida Djandoubi, an alcohol-drink and cigarette's. You should see what Hamida gave that poor girl. Élisabeth. He beat the woman before stubbing a lit cigarette all over her breasts and genital area. Kidnapped, tortured and murdered 22-year-old Élisabeth Bousquet.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamida_Djandoubi
If losing a leg made him a murderer then losing his head ensured that he did not murder again.
@LeeRaidar amen they should have drawn and quartered and disembowled him oops did I say that Not sorry
Sound reasoning
Who needs a jury with you around. 🤣🤣
Right said !
A monster, a pimp, a nobody yet finally a body
After the death penalty verdict was announced, one of Djandoubi’s lawyers exclaimed _”They already cut off one of his legs! Surely they’re not now_ *_ALSO_* _going to cut off his head?!?”_
Perhaps there is grave injustice in the fact that we can often still see the murderer and his fear/suffering and thus paint him as the false-underdog while the greater terror and suffering of the murdered quickly becomes invisible and almost forgotten. If the woman's body were shown to us, if we could hear her pleas and screams, read descriptions of her sufferings, and hear the mourning of her family and friends, we might feel that this man's relatively quick death, as horrific as it seems to our society, pales by comparison. Honestly, which was truly "brutal?"
You nailed it!
I do believe this individual was guilty of murder however the man executed a year before him named Christian Ranucci is actually believed by most to have actually been innocent. I think that's the problem with a lot of the old executions is quite a few of the condemned literally did not even commit the crime.
Very well said.
because the author of this video is a felon loving liberal ! everything to him is brutal including self defence which must be banned now
Now feel that way about American slavery
I would bet it was not as brutal as the way that he killed the girl. I bet she suffered for a long time.
The guillotine isn't what I would describe as being a brutal death. It's just gross and seems odd that it would be used in the 20th century let alone 1977.
Τhe death penalty is torture no matter the method. What is more, it does not deter crime and it is morally indefencible. Which is why very few of those who support it would willingly become executioners. They all want someone else to do the dirty job.
What about his mental suffering which caused his perception to be out of order, who & what caused his mind to act the way it did, did he return home from a war of some description in a pts state still suffering then someone did him an injustice causing him to do what he did. Bad man 🙄, no individual should be in a pts traumatic state of mind, bad man grrr 🙄🧐🤔
@@winnienguyen4420 yeah the one death by this method I heard that went wrong and he suffered possibly was Marie Antoinette's husband Louis but they were scapegoats too which makes it worse not to mention what the french did to her little son
If he did it then he deserves worse if he didn't then he deserves better. Always see both possiblitys
If people only knew exactly what this monster did, not only to the poor girl he killed, but also others....they would weep. This guy deserved his punishment.
Well we know where he's headed now 😅
Deserved you say,what caused him to commit his crimes in the first place ? Was he a victim of injustice which traumatized his perception to result in his crime ? Did he endure child abuse as a child which traumatized him permanently causing his perception not to know any better. Oh of course surely it's his own fault if he was victimised by many individuals which caused him to act inappropriate to others & another who have dealt him another injustice, he should know better than to be a traumatized individual & not know any better bad man for being another victim of society. Traumatized or not, wake up bad man for being weak and not healing your mind which others may have caused, bad man 🤔🙄🧐
@@mimfi yours not in the punishment ? That doesn't make any sense 🤣
@@mimfi I'm not making fun, it's a simple question, I don't understand your reply 🙄 & if you make comments in an English dialogue& most replies in English, don't expect others not to either. It's common sense 🤔
@@Oissir bla bla bla bla he tortured andn killed a view woman
I wonder why this guy won't talk so lovingly about the poor girl that was beaten, tortured, had the life choked out of her and was dumped in a shed. Instead, we get to hear about how it was so heart rending that he got to smoke a couple cigs while sipping rum and chatting with his imam until he so rudely had his head removed from his body.
Not good.
He had brown skin you evil biggot
I always find it a bit silly to be upset at someone who is revolted by the murder that is occurring before their eyes and complain that they aren't thinking about some other murder that they did not witness. Humans simply can't have the same emotion for things they haven't witnessed compared to the things they have.
Example: How upset have you gotten on behalf of a friend or family member who's been wronged? Can you honestly tell me you've got that same energy for the thousands of abused children used to mine cobalt for the battery that powers your cell phone?
@@lynxis I always find it a bit silly to mourn for a monster with no thought of their victims. It's especially silly since their was only one murder in the story; the young women.
There is much more metaphorical difference between Congo cobalt miners and my phone versus this murderer and the woman he likely restored raped and murdered.
@@thomasnewcomb2079 First, two wrongs don't make a right. In cases of capital punishment, instead of one dead person, you now have two. Congrats.
Next, calling them a monster is specifically to dehumanize them and it's gross, even in the cases of the worst offenders. An attempt to erase their humanity is just an attempt to justify your own violent impulses. If you're one of the people who think that George Floyds long criminal history has any bearing on that moment where the cop knelt on the back of his neck, then I'd suggest you're part of the problem here.
Finally, who's to say this person *didn't* mourn for the victim? But if you've ever witnessed a village take a known killer and watch them stone them until they couldn't move anymore, and then douse them in gasoline and set him on fire before your eyes and if you aren't in some way mortified by the violence, then I'd suggest that a part of you is as much of a monster as the person being killed.
Hard to believe, but this was the same year that Star Wars hit our screens.
He expressed no remorse over his crimes ?
No loss.
no remorse he got it too easy
Best watched without commentator's voice . . .
If that was my wife or daughter, I'd have pulled the lever myself. Good riddance.
Honestly, I'd rather be executed than spend the rest of my life in jail. 😨
Life is what you make of it as best one can!
No one weeps for this killer, he got his justice for his horrible crimes.
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did this channel used to have a different name, or does the narrator have another channel?
A person who is hanged can suffer extreme pain for many minutes after they drop. IF the rope snaps their neck (as it is SUPPOSED to) they become paralyzed and show no struggle. BUT that does not mean they are not in a high state of pain from both the cut off of blood to the brain as well as oxygen. If the drop does not break their neck, the pain can be prolonged for many more minutes because their body could react and struggle.
@badguy5554 only if they strangle to death as well some should but the english got it right when they and hanged almost to death and then Drawn and Quartered but only if you murdered someone should you get that I mean murder not self defense or anything less thats torture like what he did to her
In Beechworth Gaol a guy did the Spandau Ballet for 15mins while hanged, sometimes they didn’t die quickly 😵💫🫣😬
@@travelsolo2677 IF their neck wasn't broken by the fall, their spinal cord was still intact and effective in transmitting impulses to the rest of their body. Of course the Spandau Ballet was possible while they slowly died of strangulation.
@@badguy5554 That is why you need reliable professionals, like Pierrepoint.
This guy talks about the brutality of the person being executed well about the victims who they killed and made them suffer. This guy was treated vary humanely but in my book I would have gave him the same death sentence.
I don't think the narrator literally thinks the execution itself was brutal. It's just become the tagline of every video he makes and probably grabs people's attention.
I would have drawn and quartered and disembowled him after hanging him near death but this narrator is only statign what happens not sympathizing with the killer
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His victims suffered. Why are we concerned
The image at 5:22 is from the actual, _illegal,_ video of the execution.
I found this to be rather strange. French law required the prison officials to release the condemned prisoner from custody just before the executioners took him to the guillotine. He was technically a free man at the time of his execution. The reason being is that the State of France was sworn to protect the health and wellbeing of her prisoners in custody. The execution while in custody would violate this oath.
No this is not. That was from the execution of Eugene Weidmann in the 1920 or 30s.
Please, ask someone else to read and tell the comments. Thank you.
Hmmm? I thought muslims were not allowed alcohol?
No virgins for him.
@@rickremco6275 72 disappointed young ladies??
No no, they are the ones who don't allow other people to drink alcohol.
Not supposed to but if they are living in a non Muslim country it's highly likely they will indulge in it. I've seen many Saudi Arabians come to a U.S. college and immediately start drinking and doing drugs.
you can be muslim and don't follow all the rules. same with others religions.
and you will always have people to be more religious , saying you are not a good one.
In the sidebar YT showed me an ad titled "Weight loss starts with the head". That was...chilling.
I think this needs to make a reappearance
What a pain in the neck
The real crime is that it took three years for him to pay for his crimes
There's no such thing as a victim of crime, it's victim of society which causes people's minds to be traumatized and brainwashed out of the normal, then caused them to Snap.... Then that's when they act as they wouldn't in the first place. The mind can only take so much imbalance before the universal law of cause & effect comes into play!
bring it back.
“The brutality of the device”?
It is the most HUMANE.
Not brutal just gross appearance wise. Few normal people would want to see the bloody aftermath of a guillotine execution no matter how humane or quick the person's actual death is. I even think that many would call the French Revolution a just and needed one if it had not involved the guillotine and so maybe public executions. Just my thoughts.
There is a video of the actual execution. It's rather Industrial.
How do you execute a guillotine blade?
While for various reasons I am against the death penalty (but in favor of life in prison without parole) to call the guillotine a brutal execution is somewhat silly.
Compared to other methods like hanging or even worse the electric chair it was a rather humane way of ending a life with no risk of (painful) failure given the mechanics of the device.
If I were to be condemned to death and had to choose the method the guillotine would be close to the top of the list
Brutality of the device? I'd much prefer that than having lit cigarettes put out on my skin, tortured then murdered hours later.
We have an expression in France that says "When you have no head, you have your legs",
It basically means that you have to use your legs when you don't think, like when you forget something at home for example.
Back then, there was a TV game show called "the head or the legs", It was like *jeopardy*, only if you got the wrong answer, you could win your point by doing a physical task, so the press called this case "La Tete ou les Jambes" (the head or the legs).
This narrators voice and inflection are irritating to listen to. It lacks emotion, empathy and narrative awareness, that reduces the entire narration into a creepy, cringey nasal drone.
Exactly
it's not that it matters that Hamida was executed, his was just one death, but the reaction of a modern, civilised mind to barbaric acts ought to be similar to that of the diarist. Well read and informative :)
Very well stated.
In the states they randomly insert needles until they think they find a vein and use untested drugs. I don't think it is possible to screw up a guillotine execution that bad.
No, we do not " insert needles until [we] think [we] find a vein" and Fentanyl is a very well tested drug. The individuals that insert the needles are trained phlebotomists and most states have gone to a straight forward one drug megadose of fentanyl. The condemned simply goes to sleep. Fentanyl is used as an anesthetic in major surgeries... as well as being a commonly abused street drug.
Such an execution is 10,000xs more humane than any method used by the murderers.
@@ubergeek1968 The last batch of US executions were all botched. And they don't use opioids although it would be better than the current grey market barbiturates because no reputable drug company will sell them to the prison system.
You shouldn't call it a brutal execution, what he did was brutal, La Guillotine as a great executioner, the drum rolls and the condemned's stomach going round and round like a washing machine.
there is always excuses made for the murderer as to why they done these things. excuse for this cold blooded killer was that he had 2/3 of his leg removed and that it must have affected hus mind. BS he killed and totured because he wanted too. for him it was over quick not so for his victims
What about what she did to him, injustice she dealt to him. So he was perhaps traumaized by his ordeal, perhaps he was victimised as a a child with pts, perhaps his misfortune added to it, perhaps the injustice she dealt to him was the final strike causing him to Snapp. Yes there's no excuse for someone Traumatized as a child is there, he should have snapped out of it and known better. Bad man 🤔🧐🙄
@@Oissir someone else making excuses for a vile murderer. he was an animal
@@marybradbury9123 but what caused him to be,who and what circumstances caused him to be so, do you know.
@@Oissir do you know? he killed someone so there is no excuses. i have had a lot of bad experiences in my life and i wouldnt even dream of killing someone especially doing those awful things before he murdered her. there is no excuse
@@marybradbury9123 you're presuming everyone reacts the same way in all circumstances are you, what if you were brainwashed by unknown circumstances which resulted you to partake in similar happenings without your consciousness awareness, but you realised during the judgement in many newspapers as opinions varied. Would you accept the verdict?
The mind is still alive for 30 seconds with the knowledge his head is gone
Imagine... 1960s-1970s France would be associated with art & culture, Jean Luc Goddard films, Sartre, Citroens, student protests, etc... but at the same time some wretched murderer would be getting his head chopped off by a device associated with the French Revolution.
These public executions need to be brought back in vogue!
It wasn't that effective in preventing crime. It was great at traumatizing anybody who watched.
@@jamesfowley4114 The Death Penalty does not prevent crime if it is not utilized when earned.
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The purpose of public executions was never to try and scare the public into being good boys and girls, it was too rob the condemned of his/her humanity and dignity in the last minutes of life by forcing them to face the community where they commuted their crimes and wanted their blood.
That is why all executions should be do ne in public view on the six pm news.
@James Fowley Who cares about your leftist ideology! Crime deterrent is not on the table as a variable in execution, its getting rid of the dangerous sociopaths who are a waste of humanity. As for life incarceration without parole, all who support this should be the ones who pay out of their pockets, not all if society!
I’ll bring the popcorn. Who will bring the beer? 😊
There is a short film of the actual execution. It was taken by a reporter who had climbed onto the roof overlooking the courtyard.
As the guillotine fell. The convicted's body sprung into the air above the platform he was lying on. An involuntary muscle spasm of his whole body from the shock and pain of having his head cut off. So strange to see.
The crime he committed was so savage, brutal and cruel. The female victim suffered a horrible death. This guy had become a monster.
That's actually the last public execution in 1939 of Eugene Weidmann you are referring to. After his public execution everything was done behind closed doors. The muscle spasm you are referring to is actually the board tilting over to toss his body into the coffin. That was pretty much the standard procedure for late 19th and 20th century guillotine executions in France.
@@winnienguyen4420 I stand corrected.
The short film was not of this execution but that of Eugene Weidmann in 1939 . That was the last public execution in France .
@@tapsars7911 It was not the Weidmann execution and not the Hamida execution. I have seen a movie of an execution where the body was Thrown up in the air by a mechanisme in the guillotine an into a digged hole. It was on national tv in Denmark some 20 years ago. The program was named European hangmen.
Are you aware of the universal law of cause & effect ? What caused his mind to be imbalanced in the first place to be so aggressive to her, perhaps it was the injustice she dealt to him which caused him to react the way he did. Perhaps his mind was suffering in a traumatic state of mind causing him to react as he did. Some people can only take so much injustice before they explode into rage and imbalance causing them to do things they normally wouldn't if their minds weren't traumatized! Think about that!
it is good to come to criticize the guillotine, to treat this form of execution as "barbaric", it is true that the electric chair, which boils the brain and takes the eyes out of their orbits is much more human, just like hanging and other joys. There is not "clean" execution even lethal injection seems to be painful. As one speaker pointed out, it would still be a good idea to remember the victims, because they are the most to complain about. Perpetrators have chosen their lives, victims have not chosen their deaths.
We need those machines here in the States.
There's actually a french tv interview with the headsman who carried out this execution that was done in 1998.
At the time he was still in possession of the guillotine and the blade that was used for the execution, he showed it too the cameras and pointed out the stains left by hamida's blood.
Untrue
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Oh Really?
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I actually have seen the interview. The guy's last name is Chevalier I believe. Old guy around 70 with glasses.
The execution was filmed from an upstairs window, you should be able to find it on this platform, it's very quick.
i was born 3 months b4 the last Guillotine
I suppose that guillotine executions did not require the presence of a physician to pronounce the victim dead. Decapitation results invariably in abrupt death.
Merry Christmas everybody! 😂
08:18 "The guards took out a hose to erase the evidence of the crime"...this is where the narrator lost me. Keep your personal views about the death penalty out and just report the facts. I won't subscribe to this channel.
He was reciting the assistants words on the execution
We should use this in the US and avoid all of the BS over exotic ways of execution. This is obviously quick, relatively cheap, requires no medical involvement and death is very rapid. We should televise the executions.
Oh, yeah, because we're not already desensitized enough to death.
I don’t know what makes me sad, the story or the speech disability of the narrator.
The guillotine what messy wasn't a brutal way to die it killed with a minimum of pain and quite rapidly. There was some fear but when you consider what this guy had done to his victim I'm not worried about his being afraid. He won a Darwin award by his own actions. The people to feel sorry for are the ones executed by the tribunals during the reign of terror.
That execution was a real Charlie Foxtrot.
Its fair what for he did.. glad to hear that..
Apparently Christopher Lee was there.
Not this one, it was in jail.
The one he saw was a public execution before the war
I don't see where it's brutal
They should have at least let him play a final game of Scrabble while waiting.
Great video! 👈🙋🇺🇸
These photos don't match up
They should feel like absolute shite for killing someone’s else. I hope it haunted them.
Don't do the crime if can't do the time"
This VIDEOOO would be BETTER if his PITCH and RYTHEEEM wasn’t so up and DOOOWN.
joyeus festivitees, les fortress!
Criminals should have quit while they were a-head.
It’s bloody but probably not really a brutal death. He would be unconscious inmediately head is cut due to catastrophic loss of blood pressure to the brain. The American lethal injection and electric chair are far more lingering and unpleasant and is still praticed. This was 40 odd years ago.
How about 40 even years ago 🤣🤣🤣
Crime has only gotten worse?
I read an account of Hamidas execution from a witness. ( A Doctor i think it was?) It was said he was responsive for between 20 to 30 seconds decapitation.. Many accounts of similar senarios had been documented prior.
I wonder if this example of yet another "Talking Head" the Govt decided enough was enough.
I was executed back in 2003 . The chips were down , it was on a fry day well, nasty affair it was,blood everywhere,then I woke up with ketchup all over my face. I'm ok now..
If you were executed then tf are you alive
What is right and wrong we can all understand, but thing we condemn underlined that one must not harm another so person loses his life. But how is it that we can justify killing someone regardless of the deed? No one has the right to take someone else's life as a private person or state. On the other hand, we should protect other citizens by imprisoning individuals so that the perpetrators cannot harm others.
Final surely means the end, but this is the last, not final execution in France. Who is to say that Madame Guillotine will not raise her ugly head again, There are still plenty of people wishing for a return to capital punishment.
Capital punishment is really cruel. I wonder why there are pictures of German fallbeil!?
Not as cruel as what happened to the victims!
I wondered myself why the fallbeil is included in photos regarding French guillotine executions. The fallbeil was a much shorter machine made up of more metal than wood and all executions in Germany had been behind closed doors never public like in France.
I cannot agree. An antelope torn apart by a lion is cruel. An extended brutality to his victim was cruel. The only cruel part of an execution is the interminable trials and appeals. The prisoner has a lot of time to become scared and unnerved. It is ironic that if executions were summary they may be less just but they would also be less cruel.
Well done to President Francois Mitterrand for abolishing this grisly, barbaric form of punishment. No doubt there will be some sadists and attention-seekers posting here wanting it brought back, but these people are best ignored. These are the kind of people who drink alone in the pub because no one wants to listen to their boring rants, but now unfortunately the internet has given them a worldwide platform to air their toxic views.
He was unfit for society, without question, but the death penalty makes murderers of us all and cheapens what should be held as sacrosanct by those of us who consider ourselves fit for society.
I'd rather not waste tax dollars on feeding scum like him. Unfit for society? Unfit to be living.
And nothing of value was lost.
It seems France 🇫🇷 were as colonial and desperate to hold on to their empire after ww2 as Victorian Britain was 🇬🇧
I think more so actually and the conflicts were much bloodier for instance the battle of Dien Bien Phu in my country of Vietnam.
Your comment is incoherent. Are you comparing post WW2 France with Victorian Britain? If so, that is not a comparable situation. Post WW2 Britain voluntarily withdrew from most colonies and worked with those countries to achieve this.
C'est une éxécution horrible, et je pense que cela poursuit tout ceux sui y ont assisté, mais je pense profondément qu'il l'avait mérité. Autant que le docteur Petiot, Landru, Buffet,Bontemps. La Louison est remisée aux oubliettes et la Famille de bourreaux n'existe plus. C'est un temps révolu, mais finalement était -ce vraiment une bonne chose d'abolir la peine de mort en France? Ma conviction personnelle est non. 🇲🇫
No brutality here!! Quick death!! no suffering!!!
I presume some label it brutal because it's explicit & public rather than discreet & humble in presentation!
Interesting
Chopped off at both ends...
Bring the Madame back .💀👍
Dang I came for Gore not a history lesson
Sorry not much empathy for murderers.
Don't expect me to cry for a murder and pimp.
This is single most annoying speak I’ve ever heard😅
Does anyone know what the "Jewish guillotine".?🤔
I think It's a little family get together where they cut off the tip of something
Laaame, I came here to see some shit not hear rhetoric.
Bruh Its pronounced giyoteen, not gilloteen
Why do ALL vids on this channel say "brutal" lol???!!!
upsetting un christmassy execution
*Christmassy
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" Just a little off of the top ...."
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There is nothing brutal about the guillotine. The murderer has killed his victim brutally.
I'll bet there are millions of real French citizens that wish the death penalty could still be used to rid their society of criminal m_s_i_ms that are wreaking havoc.
they should have showed a film so people can see
I think they need one that drops a blade about 20 feet...... that way the poor dolp can hear the blade coming down the chute right before his head drops in a bucket. 🤣🤣
a francuzi tento bolsevicky puc plny vrazd a rozkradania oslavuju kazdy rok.
You call this brutal, they gave Hamida Djandoubi, an alcohol-drink and cigarette's. You should see what Hamida gave that poor girl. Élisabeth. He beat the woman before stubbing a lit cigarette all over her breasts and genital area. Kidnapped, tortured and murdered 22-year-old Élisabeth Bousquet.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamida_Djandoubi
Scusate ma x voi,conoscere l'inglese e' obbligatorio,non ho capito una mazza
Great video! 👈🙋🇺🇸