Who was the first person to be killed by the guillotine?

Answer 1

Apr. 25, 1792: Nicolas Jacques Peletier became the first victim of the guillotine.

He had been found guilty of "assaulting a private individual" with several blows of a knife and stealing a wallet containing 800 livers. When sentencing him, the judge offered the following comfort: "The condemned will have nothing to endure but the apprehension of death, which apprehension will be more painful to you than the blow that robs you of life." Peletier wasn't convinced and had to be dragged to the scaffold in a fainting fit. The Place de Greve in Paris was packed with eager spectators, but after the executioner, Charles Henri Sanson, released the blade the crowd gave a groan of disapproval. It had all been too quick. They began chanting, "Give me back my wooden gallows."

The inventor, the kindly Dr. Ignace Joseph Guillotin, wasn't too pleased either. From that day on, whenever he was recognized, people would strike the napes of their necks with the palms of their hands. The good doctor even hated having the device named after him, and if anyone ever used the name guillotine in his presence he would always correct the person by calling it "the Maiden." It is also a fact that Dr. Guillotin not only didn't attend the beheading of Peletier but was never present at a single capital execution.

Answer 2

Apr. 25, 1792: Nicolas Jacques Peletier became the first victim of the guillotine.

He had been found guilty of "assaulting a private individual" with several blows of a knife and stealing a wallet containing 800 livers. When sentencing him, the judge offered the following comfort: "The condemned will have nothing to endure but the apprehension of death, which apprehension will be more painful to you than the blow that robs you of life." Peletier wasn't convinced and had to be dragged to the scaffold in a fainting fit. The Place de Greve in Paris was packed with eager spectators, but after the executioner, Charles Henri Sanson, released the blade the crowd gave a groan of disapproval. It had all been too quick. They began chanting, "Give me back my wooden gallows."

The inventor, the kindly Dr. Ignace Joseph Guillotin, wasn't too pleased either. From that day on, whenever he was recognized, people would strike the napes of their necks with the palms of their hands. The good doctor even hated having the device named after him, and if anyone ever used the name guillotine in his presence he would always correct the person by calling it "the Maiden." It is also a fact that Dr. Guillotin not only didn't attend the beheading of Peletier but was never present at a single capital execution.

Answer 3

Nicolas Jacques Pelletier was the first person to be executed by the guillotine. He was a French highway man who robbed people. On October 14th, 1971 he and a group of fellow criminals attacked a person in Paris and Pelletier was found guilty.

Answer 4

In France it was the Tunisian, Hamida Djandoubi on 10 September 1977.

Answer 5

Hamida Djandoubi died 1949-10 September 1977, and was the last person to be guillotined in France, at Baumettes Prison in Marseille.

Answer 6

Jacques Pelletier on April 25th 1792

Answer 7

Nicolas Jaques Pelletier 1792