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 Paris this week for the…

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…