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French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said he favoured granting Robert Badinter, who as justice minister ended capital punishment in 1981, one of Frances top honours.

Robert Badinter, the former minister who abolished the death penalty, was honored in Paris after his death on Friday, but members of the far left and right were told they were unwelcome.

Emmanuel Macron says Badinter was nation’s ‘moral conscience’ as thousands sign condolences book

PARIS -Robert Badinter, a former Justice minister best known for abolishing the guillotine in France in 1981, died on Friday at age 95.... -February 09, 2024 at 06:21 am EST - MarketScreener

PARIS -Robert Badinter, a former Justice minister best known for abolishing the guillotine in France in 1981, died on Friday at age 95.... -February 09, 2024 at 06:21 am EST - MarketScreener

He spent decades as an esteemed defense lawyer but was best known as the justice minister who enacted a 1981 law abolishing capital punishment.

Robert Badinter, the former justice minister who played a key role in abolishing the death penalty in France in 1981, has died at the age of 95.  

Fifty-five percent of French people say they are in favour of the death penalty, the highest ever figure recorded since the poll was started in 2013. The Jean Jaurès Foundation – one of the organisations…

The former justice minister pushed through a bill to abolish executions in 1981. The last person to be guillotined in France was in 1977

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 …