US EditionRobert Badinter, French ex-minister who fought to abolish death penalty, dies at 95
- Former French justice minister Robert Badinter, who abolished capital punishment in France, has died at the age of 95.
- Badinter introduced legislation to ban the death penalty, which he deemed "inhumane and ineffective," shortly after assuming office.
- During his tenure, Badinter also worked to improve conditions in French prisons and scrapped a discriminatory law against gays.
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KIFIRobert Badinter, who led France to end the death penalty and fought Holocaust denial, has died at 95
Robert Badinter, who spearheaded the drive to abolish France’s death penalty, has died. He also fought antisemitism and Holocaust denial and led a European body dealing with the legal fallout
Robert Badinter, who abolished death penalty in France, dies at 95 - La Prensa Latina Media
Paris, Feb 9 (EFE).- Former French justice minister Robert Badinter, who abolished capital punishment in France in 1981, has died at the age of 95, one of his aides told local media on Friday. Badinter, who served as justice minister from 1981 to 1986, died overnight, the aide said. “Lawyer, Minister of Justice, and the man who abolished the death penalty, Robert Badinter never stopped pleading for the Enlightenment. He was a person of the centu…
Former French Minister of Justice Robert Badinter is dead. He was significantly involved in abolishing the death penalty in France in 1981...
Lawyer Robert Badinter, who as Justice Minister under President François Mitterrand brought to Parliament the law that abolished the death penalty in France in 1981, has...
In a France “that was afraid””, the security right did not want to hear about the subject; the left, focused on the social question, ignored it. And then there was the speech of this son of Jewish immigrants, “lawyer of murderers”, defending a human advance that was much more than legal.
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