Robert Badinter, French lawyer and justice minister, 1928-2024
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Human rights champion who secured the death penalty’s abolition in his country and advised on Yugoslavia’s break-up
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Human rights champion who secured the death penalty’s abolition in his country and advised on Yugoslavia’s break-up
Full ArticleHe spent decades as an esteemed defense lawyer but was best known as the justice minister who enacted a 1981 law abolishing capital..