On 09.19.18, In Articles, by Marilyn Z. Tomlins
Is there anything more French than the guillotine, you may well ask? As a true crime writer resident in France, I’ve written about this head-chopping apparatus, first put to work in 1792 and last put to work in 1981, four years after capital punishment had been abolished by a parliamentary vote (1977). One of […]
On 09.17.18, In Articles, by Marilyn Z. Tomlins
Money makes the world go round, it is said. Money also turns people into murderers: those not having it, wanting it. And murdering to have it. This case – the fatal shooting of Monaco billionaires, Hélène Pastor, on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 – is such a case. I reported the shooting in detail and I […]
On 09.16.18, In Articles, by Marilyn Z. Tomlins
In July this year of 2018 France’s prison population was 70,710. This number is out of France’s population which comes to 65,286,555 of whom about 6 million are foreign-born. Not bad, would you say? The French are behaving themselves. Not if you consider that France ‘s prisons can accommodate just 60,000. Therefore, France’s prisons […]