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

In 1977, while most of the world had moved beyond public executions, France carried out one final act of an older justice. A man convicted of murder faced the guillotine - a method of execution first ...

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

for the journey to the guillotine. Her hair had been cropped, her dress was soiled and a grubby linen cap was thrust on her head. Crowds lined the rue St Honoré to watch the last journey of their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981, entered the country's Pantheon mausoleum ...