Robert Badinter Enters the Pantheon as France Honors the Champion of Human Rights
  • 09/10/2025
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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 was vandalized. Badinter, a lawyer who campaigned for an end to capital punishment after one of his clients was beheaded with a guillotine in the ...

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