Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Badinter, the lawyer and former justice minister who led France to end the death penalty, will be inducted into the ...

Position of France last week when her Chamber did not choose to pay: National Budget: Drawn to balance at 41 billion francs but unbalanced by a current deficit of 3 4/5 billion francs ($150,000,000), ...

Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981, entered the country's Pantheon mausoleum of outstanding historical figures on Thursday, just hours after his grave ...

PARIS — For years after men walked on the moon, France was still executing convicts in capital cases the old-fashioned way, as it had for more than two centuries: by “taking a living man and cutting ...

Up at auction in Paris last week came a rusty, mildewed guillotine certified to have cut off more than 1,000 aristocratic heads during the French Revolution. After brisk bidding it was knocked down ...

A 19th century guillotine in perfect working order goes up for auction in France on Thursday and is expected to fetch up to 60,000 euros ($82,000), the auctioneers said. The wood, iron, steel and ...

France's highest appeals court on Thursday examined a man's unprecedented request to have his father's "honour" restored following his 1957 execution by guillotine for killing a policeman in an armed ...

A French court on Wednesday sentenced a student to a suspended term of one year in jail over desecrating the tomb of a former justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981. The Barron ...