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Despite widespread support within France for the death penalty, President Emmanuel Macron announced he will be campaigning on a global scale to end the practice.

French President Emmanuel Macron commemorated the 40th anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty in France at the Pantheon on Saturday, vowing to "relaunch the fight for the universal abolition" of capital punishment. Describing the death...

After many decades of legal wrangling, France finally abolished the death penalty in 1981.The legislation was passed under socialist president François Mitterrand, but the flagbearer for the move was…

France will launch a campaign for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty as part of its upcoming presidency of the European Union, President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday.

Salah Abdeslam, the sole survivor of the terrorist groups that murdered 130 people in Paris in November 2015, has frequently interrupted proceedings at the trial where, along with 19 co-accused, he f…

Le 30 septembre 1981, la loi abolissant la peine de mort était définitivement adoptée par le Sénat. C’est à Doëlan, dans une petite maison appartenant aux écrivains Benoîte Groult et Paul Guimard,...

Le 17 septembre 1981, au Palais Bourbon, Robert Badinter plaide contre la peine de mort devant un hémicycle qui vota, le lendemain, l'abolition.

Forty years after giving a speech that lead to the end of the death penalty in France, former Justice minister Robert Badinter continues to fight for the abolition of capital punishment around the wo…

Advertisement A square in central Paris, on the banks of the Seine, was re-named last week “Place of the Jewish Martyrs,” marking the 44th anniversary of the round-up and deportation of nearly 15,000 Parisian Jews to Nazi death camps. Premier Jacques Chirac, who is also Mayor of Paris, unveiled a plaque in the presence of Theo Klein, president of the representative organization of French Jews (CRIF), Ady Steg, president of the Alliance Israelite Universelle and Israel’s Ambassador to Fran...

The writer is an author. THE Bhuttos and tragedy share a grave. They are like the Kennedys and the Nehruvian Gandhis — privileged families who invoke (to borrow Homer’s thoughts) “the envy of the gods”; their mortal appeal lies in that “they are doomed”. That sense of genetic foreboding permeates the pages of Victoria Schofield’s touching memoir of her long friendship with the late Benazir Bhutto — The Fragrance of Tears (OUP Karachi, 2021). It began when they were both Freshers...