French court rejects request to ‘honour’ man executed for killing cop

Punchng | 16-10-2024 03:22am |

France’s highest appeals court Tuesday rejected restoring “honour” to a man executed in 1957 by guillotine for killing a policeman, dashing his family’s hopes of a historic rehabilitation. The son of Jacques Fesch, 27, who was executed on October 1, 1957, for killing 35-year-old Jean-Baptiste Vergne during an armed robbery, said he brought the request Read More

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