This video documents the restoration of an Antique French Guillotine from the 1930-1950 era found in a flea market in ...

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 ...

More than four decades after the guillotine was last used in an execution in France, a 150-year-old replica of the device made famous in The Terror that followed the ...

A museum has assembled a 800-kilogram (1,700-pound) guillotine as part of reflection on Badinter's legacy President Emmanuel Macron was to preside over the ceremony The grave of Robert Badinter, the ...

In the U.S., capital punishment is resurgent. What lessons can we glean from France’s successful campaign to abolish it?

The replica of the execution device made famous by the French Revolution sold for the equivalent of $9,355. But the auction drew criticism from a... More than four decades after the guillotine was ...