A museum in the city is honoring the legacy of Minister of Justice Robert Badinter, who fought to repeal the death penalty in ...
Items relating to the death of Marie Antoinette go on display in London, including the guillotine possibly used to execute ...
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 ...
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 ...