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The Execution
Publisher
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Fayard
Parution date
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1998
EAN
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9782213595443
Description
Overwhelmed after witnessing the execution of a man he had defended in 1972, nine years before the death penalty was abolished in France, Badinter chose to write this account, updated in this new edition of L’Exécution. Presenting the case that led up to the execution itself, Badinter explores certain aspects of the legal system that render it undeniably infallible. L'Exécution is a gripping, powerful document, which reads like a legal thriller but is all too true.
Author
Robert Badinter : Lawyer, professor of law, former French Attorney General (1981 - 1986), and finally President of the Constitutional Counsel (1986 - 1995), Senator Robert Badinter has written several books including a biography of Condorcet (Fayard, 1989), a play on Oscar Wilde (Actes Sud, 1995) and Un antisémitisme ordinaire: Vichy et les avocats juifs, 1940-1944 (Fayard, 1997).
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