Robert Badinter's secret face-to-face with the guillotine, in four unseen pictures

Ahead of Robert Badinter's induction into France's Panthéon, one of his former aides decided to reveal photos he took in 1981 ...
KPVI

Guillotine abolitionist Robert Badinter to enter France's Pantheon

Robert Badinter, a justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981, is to enter the country's Pantheon ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

French guillotine abolitionist enters Pantheon

Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981, entered the country's Pantheon mausoleum ...
Time

GREAT BRITAIN: The Guillotine

Seventy years ago, Lord Randolph Churchill delivered a stinging attack on the use of cloture to cut short debate in Britain’s Parliament. “The cloture is,” said he as quoted in a biography written by ...
Reuters

Berlin artists lead lamb to guillotine in stunt

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Two artists in Berlin drew public condemnation after building a guillotine and taking votes from the public on whether they should use it to slaughter a lamb as a stunt. A ...