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The parliament failed to pass a bill to end capital punishment due to a lack of support from lawmakers since 1999

"During the first three years of the 1954-1957 Algerian war, François Mitterrand, future President of the Republic, was in turn Minister of the Interior, then Minister of Justice. He was one of the leading figures in the governments of the Fourth Republic, which applied a particularly repressive policy in Algeria. A formidable unsaid surrounded by these three long years. The film reveals, thanks to unpublished archives, that François Mitterrand, Minister of Justice of the Guy Mollet government, refused pardon, in more than 80% of cases, to FLN militants sentenced to death. Why, as Minis...

Only 20% of the French police's work is dealing with crime. Their real job is maintaining whatever the ruling powers have decided should be the prevailing social order. Hence the current reaction to the creeping expansion of police powers.

On November 28, 1972, Roger Bontems was guillotined for a murder he did not commit. His lawyer would spend the rest of his life campaigning to end the death penalty.

On a biting cold morning on November 28, 1972, a Frenchman was guillotined for a murder he did not commit, in a case that so traumatised his lawyer he would