Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981, entered the country's Pantheon mausoleum of outstanding historical figures on Thursday, just hours after his grave ...

The grave of Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981, was vandalised on Thursday, just hours before his induction into the country's Pantheon mausoleum of ...

More than four decades after the guillotine was last used in an execution in France, a 150-year-old replica of the device made famous in The Terror that followed the ...

A museum has assembled a 800-kilogram (1,700-pound) guillotine as part of reflection on Badinter's legacy President Emmanuel Macron was to preside over the ceremony The grave of Robert Badinter, the ...