In 1977, while most of the world had moved beyond public executions, France carried out one final act of an older justice. A man convicted of murder faced the guillotine - a method of execution first ...

A museum in the city is honoring the legacy of Minister of Justice Robert Badinter, who fought to repeal the death penalty in ...

The display is timed for the anniversary of France’s abolition of the death penalty, and its honoring of the lawyer who ...

The grave of Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981, was vandalised on Thursday, ...

Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981, entered the country's Pantheon mausoleum ...

Robert Badinter, a justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981, is to enter the country's Pantheon ...

Despite its appealingly gory subject, Mercer's uneven history of the guillotine is too poorly organized to be truly informative. Arriving in rough-and-tumble Marseille in 1968, Tunisian-born Hamida ...

Ahead of Robert Badinter's induction into France's Panthéon, one of his former aides decided to reveal photos he took in 1981 ...