Robert Badinter, who spearheaded the drive to abolish France’s death penalty, campaigned against anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, and led a European body dealing with the legal fallout of Yugoslavia’s break-up, has died. He was 95. French president Emmanuel Macron hailed Mr Badinter, a revered human rights defender and former justice minister, as a “figure of the century” who “never ceased to advocate for the ideas of the Enlightenment”. The French justice ministry on Friday confirmed Mr Badinter’s death, without providing details. A famed lawyer and thinker, Mr Badinter was best-known for his sustained push to end capital punishment. READ MORE...