A museum in the city is honoring the legacy of Minister of Justice Robert Badinter, who fought to repeal the death penalty in ...

Items relating to the death of Marie Antoinette go on display in London, including the guillotine possibly used to execute ...

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 ...

Place de la Concorde, once Place de la Révolution, where Marie Antoinette was executed in 1793 - Getty An hour later ... Twenty-three years later she faced an enormous guillotine. As she climbed the ...

He used the case as an opportunity to weigh the death penalty, calling in experts to describe the workings of the guillotine in grisly detail. "Guillotining is nothing less than taking a living man ...

President Emmanuel Macron hailed the former French justice minister's 'voice advocating for these great, essential and ...

Robert Badinter, the lawyer and former justice minister who led France to end the death penalty, will be inducted into the Panthéon in Paris on Thursday – 44 years to the day after the abolition law ...

Nine months after the execution of her husband, the former King Louis XVI of France, Marie Antoinette follows him to the ...

The tomb of former French Justice Minister Robert Badinter has been vandalized near Paris. Badinter led efforts to abolish France’s death penalty and decriminalize homosexuality. He died last ...

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 ...