Robert Badinter and the death penalty: How one lawyer changed French justice
• Oct 8, 2025, 7:26 PM
1 min de lecture
Robert Badinter, the former lawyer and justice minister who persuaded France to give up the guillotine, will be laid to rest in the Panthéon on October 9, the anniversary of the 1981 abolition of the death penalty. As he enters the Paris mausoleum to the heros of the French Republic, his legacy continues to inspire the global fight against capital punishment.
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