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Robert Badinter's Experience in French Death Penalty Cases

Description:Robert Badinter, the French Minister of Justice between 1981 and 1986, led the battle to abolish the death penalty in France. He became a militant abolitionist after watching one of his clients unjustly guillotined in 1972. Over the next decade, he fought the death penalty in the courts and saved six men from the guillotine. After the election of Franois Mitterrand in 1981, Badinter was named Minister of Justice and worked to revoke this punishment. (8:36)

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