At a global summit in Paris, the French president defends human dignity amid a surge in state killings.

Le président français s'exprime lors de l'ouverture du 9e Congrès mondial contre la peine de mort qui se tient à Paris pendant trois jours.

Selon l’ONG Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM), la Chine, l’Iran, l’Arabie saoudite et l’Irak sont les quatre Etats ayant procédé au plus grand nombre d’exécutions en 2024.

At a global summit in Paris, the French president defends human dignity amid a surge in state killings.

At the World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Paris, Macron described the fight against capital punishment as a fight for human dignity.

"The death penalty has never made a society safer," Macron said during a speech at the ninth World Congress against the death penalty. #EuropeNews

The fight to abolish the death penalty remains "eminently contemporary", French President Emmanuel Macron said as campaigners, judges and former death row prisoners gathered in…