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Marine Le Pen banned from running for French presidency in 2027 and given four-year sentence in embezzlement trial – live (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

They did - the last one was in 1977 though, which really isn't that long ago!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamida_Djandoubi?wprov=sfla1

EDIT - wait, you said public beheading. That was in 1939 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Weidmann?wprov=sfla1