Quote Originally Posted by Letters View Post
I'm pretty sure France used the guillotine in my lifetime.
I've heard about this asphyxiation method and know it's pretty controversial. Although as discussed I think any method is pretty controversial
I have only a rough idea of how old you are, but yes the Guillotine was last used in France in 1977 (13 years after the last execution in the UK)

Capital punishment was still used in the old Eastern bloc in countries like Czechoslovakia and Romania (see execution of Nicolae Ceaucescu) up until the collapse of communism in the late eighties/early nineties.

Belarus remains the only European country that still carries out capital punishment.