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Robert Badinter

Robert Badinter was France’s Minister of Justice from 1981, when he was instrumental in abolishing the death penalty, to 1986, and President of the Constitutional Council from 1986 to 1995. The article in the August 13, 2015 issue originally appeared in Le Monde. (August 2015)

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