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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Original Alice Cooper band guitarist Michael Bruce joined the band for the closer “School’s Out” as Alice popped huge ...

Martyr means witness in Greek; the early martyrs were witnesses to God. Babbitt and Floyd both had causes linked to their ...

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

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 ...