Paris, Oct 9, 2025 (AFP) - Guillotine abolitionist Robert Badinter to enter France's Pantheon

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Robert Badinter, a justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981, is to enter the country's Pantheon mausoleum of outstanding historical figures on Thursday. Badinter, a lawyer who campaigned for an end to capital punishment after one of his clients was beheaded with a guillotine in the 1970s, died last year aged 95. His legacy also includes a 1982 law to decriminalise homosexuality. His remains are to stay in a cemetery outside......

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