On this date in 1987, Eshan Nayeck was hanged in Port Louis — capital of the Indian Ocean island nation Mauritius, a former Dutch, French, and British colony near Reunion Island.
It was just the second execution (French link) since Mauritius attained its independence in 1968, and it remains to this day the last.*
* Mauritius abolished the death penalty in 1995, but its current Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has publicly mooted (pdf) restoring capital punishment “for crimes such as drug trafficking.”
On this day..
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- 1983: Waldemar Krakos, Dekalog inspiration
- 1796: Claude Javogues
- 1989: Jimmy Chua and his Pudu Prison siege accomplices
- 1783: Jacques Francois Paschal, rapist monk
- 1867: Not Santa Anna
- 1932: Lee Bong-chang, would-be Hirohito assassin
- Corpses Strewn: The Streltsy
- 1698: The Streltsy executions begin
- 1707: Johann Patkul, schemer
- 1800: Prosser's Gabriel, slave rebel
- 1923: Susan Newell, the last woman hanged in Scotland
- 1911: Several revolutionaries on Double Ten Day
I think the murderer Eshan Nayeck was hanged at Beau Bassin Prison and not at Port Louis as mentioned in the article. Please check for this information.