Robert Badinter: “The death penalty fulfills a different function than the fight against crime”

Published on : 20/10/2021 – 15:35

During a speech at the Pantheon on October 9, 2021 to mark the 40th anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty in France, Emmanuel Macron announced the organization of a “meeting at the highest level” at the beginning of 2022 for “convince” the leaders of countries still applying it of “the urgency of abolishing it”.

The bill on the abolition of the death penalty was adopted in France by the National Assembly on September 18, 1981, four months after the election of François Mitterrand to the Élysée, then on September 30 by the senators. The scrapping of the guillotine was enacted on October 9, 1981.