Badinter contre la peine de mort, le procès Patrick Henry
Actors from the Comédie-Française perform the trial of Patrick Henry, in which Robert Badinter saved the guilty man from the guillotine. A film rich in archival footage and original in form. "There ar…
Badinter contre la peine de mort, le procès Patrick Henry
Actors from the Comédie-Française perform the trial of Patrick Henry, in which Robert Badinter saved the guilty man from the guillotine. A film rich in archival footage and original in form. "There are no big trials." With these words, Robert Badinter began a closing argument that would change the course of a trial whose outcome was expected to be the death penalty. This argument was delivered on January 20, 1977, in Troyes, during the trial of Patrick Henry. His crime was abominable: the kidnapping and murder of a 7-year-old child. No mitigating circumstances seemed likely to save him from the guillotine. However, the jurors were convinced by the lawyer's words. And Patrick Henry saved his head. Reconstructed by actors from the Comédie Française, snippets of Badinter's plea recorded clandestinely and Badinter's own words make it possible to reconstruct this seminal moment.
Badinter contre la peine de mort, le procès Patrick Henry
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Actors from the Comédie-Française perform the trial of Patrick Henry, in which Robert Badinter saved the guilty man from the guillotine. A film rich in archival footage and original in form. "There are no big trials." With these words, Robert Badinter began a closing argument that would change the course of a trial whose outcome was expected to be the death penalty.
This argument was delivered on January 20, 1977, in Troyes, during the trial of Patrick Henry. His crime was abominable: the kidnapping and murder of a 7-year-old child. No mitigating circumstances seemed likely to save him from the guillotine.
However, the jurors were convinced by the lawyer's words. And Patrick Henry saved his head. Reconstructed by actors from the Comédie Française, snippets of Badinter's plea recorded clandestinely and Badinter's own words make it possible to reconstruct this seminal moment..