Robert Badinter, the former Minister of Justice to whom we owe the abolition of the death penalty, died this Friday, February 9, 2024. He was 95 years old.
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Robert Badinter is dead. The man who was Keeper of the Seals from 1981 to 1986 under François Mitterrand died at the age of 95, we learned this Friday, February 9. It is to the former minister that we owe the abolition of the death penalty in France after a ten-year fight to obtain the adoption of his reform. Robert Badinter, a lawyer by profession, was also president of the Constitutional Council.
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