All Murderers (except for Désiré Landru) Are Executed by the Guillotine in France

 100 Years Ago Today

Saturday 25th of February 1922
Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 53 in Prison Saint Pierre, Place des Tribunaux, Versailles, Île-de-France, France.

He was the 19th person executed since the events that led to WWII. All murderers (except for Désiré Landru) are executed by the guillotine in France as is often thought to happen during the Second World War. One may say that the French law does not allow the use of the guillotine. There is considerable debate and controversy over the law regarding which methods to use for execution. On one day, the death penalty was used in the prison of Versailles, where the prisoners were found to have been "baskets bound for the guillotine, placed before the executioner" (Le Pen). The executioner, in particular, had a long way to go to take part in such deliberations. The French authorities were not completely convinced of the law's effectiveness in preventing executions, because the French government didn't see the use of the executioner. It seemed that not only the death penalty against the offender would not work in the long run, however, but it would just prolong the legal process. One who was determined to be executed was the president of a republic. In France however.