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Le Monde
The President of the Republic announced Saturday that France would “revive the fight for the universal abolition” of the death penalty. Emmanuel Macron commemorated at the Pantheon the abolition of the death penalty in France, celebrated with Robert Badinter, Minister of Justice of François Mitterrand in 1981.
He explained that he would seize the occasion of the French Presidency of the European Union, which begins in January, to organize in Paris a meeting “at the highest level” with the civil society of States “applying again the death penalty, or a moratorium “. The objective of this event, which will be coorganized with the association together against the death penalty, is to convince the leaders of the States concerned.
The death penalty has declined in the world for forty years, but 483 executions have been identified in 2020 by Amnesty International in 18 countries, including China, Iran, Egypt, Iraq and Arabia Saudi. Large democratic states like India or the United States still authorize it.