1977A Tunisian immigrant convicted of murder became the final person executed in France by guillotine. France’s death penalty was formally abolished four years later by President Francois Mitterand.1924Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were found guilty of murder in a Cook County trial. The pair were wealthy students at the University of Chicago who kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks to demonstrate their intellectual superiority by committing what they thought would be the “perfect crime.” With …