Former Minister of Justice and President of the Constitutional Council spoke out for the abolition of the death penalty in France in 1981. He said: “There are no men on this earth whose guilt is total” “I don’t see myself pushing the syringe to kill,” he told Télérama in 2008.
“We are moving from a justice of liberty to a Justice of security. It’s worrying," he said in an interview in 2009.