Eshan "Alexandré" Nayeck (died 10 October 1987) was a
Mauritian
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convicted
murder
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er and the last person to be
executed
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in
Mauritius
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On 23 July 1983, 45-year-old Abdool Rashid Atchia was stabbed and killed in the central marketplace of
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Anerood Jugnauth signed the execution warrant. Nayeck was executed by hanging at Beau Bassin Prison on 10 October 1987. One hour after his execution, doctors stated that Nayeck had died of strangulation. He was the second person executed by Mauritius since its 1968 independence.
The death penalty was abolished in Mauritius in 1995 by the government of the newly elected
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