File Picture of Robert Badinter posing in his office at his home in the 6th arrondissement, Paris, France on September 4, 2006. Robert Badinter, a former Justice minister best known for abolishing the guillotine in France in 1981, died on Friday at age 95. A lawyer and human rights activist, Badinter introduced major law reforms after Socialist Francois Mitterrand, a previous self-professed opponent of the death penalty, was elected president in May 1981 and made him justice minister. Photo by Sandrine Roudeix/ABACAPRESS.COM