Jacques Fesch: can we rehabilitate a guillotine?

To end it once and for all with the death penalty: the scope of the decision rendered on Friday by the Constitutional Council potentially exceeds the particular case of Gérard Fesch. The latter had requested the analysis of the Wise Men through an astonishing priority question of constitutionality (QPC).

His father, Jacques Fesch, was sentenced to death for the murder of a police officer and guillotined in 1957. Once arrested, he was touched by faith. The health chaplain, Father Devoyod, accompanies to the scaffold a being whose conduct has edified all the prison staff. The criminal's dungeon writings become bookstore successes. Years later, Cardinal Lustiger launched a beatification process for Jacques Fesch, which continued its course.

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Gérard Fesch, whose life is a novel, wishes to obtain the rehabilitation of his father, in the judicial sense. Rehabilitation, recalls the Constitutional Council, "aims to promote the reclassification of the convicted person" . This "sorry

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