PUBLIC EXECUTIONS
CHANGE IN FRENCH LAW Executions by the guillotine in France will no longer take place in Dublic. A decree law giving effect to this decision was signed by President Lebrun recently. „ ... . . . In future, as in British countries, executions will take place in prison courtyards and only officials will be The decision is believed to be the result of the publicity, pictorial and otherwise, given to the execution of Eugene Weidmann, the mass murderer.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23883, 10 August 1939, Page 12
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75PUBLIC EXECUTIONS Otago Daily Times, Issue 23883, 10 August 1939, Page 12
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