LIFE ABOLISHED
French Justice Minister Robert Badinter has died aged 95. A lawyer who was repulsed by witnessing his clients’ executions firsthand, he made abolition of the death penalty his mission. The guillotine was still intermittently used, increasingly divisively, during the Giscard d’Estaing administration. After Mitterand was elected in 1981 on a platform that was staunchly anti-death penalty, he selected Badinter as his Minister of Justice and the guillotine was consigned to history within the year. Two teams took a swing.
Robert Badinter
30 March 1928 – 9 February 2024, aged 95
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