Robert Badinter, French minister who ended the guillotine, dies at 95
Robert Badinter, the former justice minister who played a key role in abolishing the death penalty in France in 1981, has died at the age of 95.
Badinter saved many lives by dedicating his own to the fight against capital punishment.
The soft-spoken human rights lawyer, who said he could not abide by a "killer justice system", was widely vilified for pushing through legislation banning the death penalty at