When I hear of someone committing a really serious crime, I have often thought: "Lock him up and throw away the key." After reading the death row journal of a young Frenchman called Jacques Fesch, ...

Jacques Fesch was executed for killing Jean-Baptiste Vergne during an armed robbery File photo: Jacques Fesch, aged 24 then, was about to meet the examining magistrate on March 4, 1954 in Paris. AFP ...

Gérard Droniou shows a news report about the case of his father Jacques Fesch, executed by guillotine in 1957. Photo by JOEL ROBINE / AFP France's highest appeals court on Tuesday rejected restoring ...

France's highest constitutional body began examining a complaint Tuesday from a Frenchman seeking a law change to allow a pardon for his father who was executed in 1957 for killing a policeman in an ...

France’s highest appeals court Tuesday rejected restoring “honour” to a man executed in 1957 by guillotine for killing a policeman, dashing his family’s hopes of a historic rehabilitation. The son of ...

France's highest constitutional body on Friday rejected a man's attempt to have his father pardoned following his 1957 execution for killing a policeman in an armed robbery. The law in France, which ...