The former French justice minister Robert Badinter will have his name written in the Panthéon, the resting place of the nation’s greats, Emmanuel Macron has said, amid an outpouring of national grief over the death of the lawyer who fought to ban capital punishment in France. Macron told a memorial ceremony on Wednesday that Badinter, who died aged 95, had been the “moral conscience” of the nation. Thousands of people turned out to commemorate Badinter’s work and legacy, which transformed the justice system. The work included ending the death penalty and scrapping a law that discriminated against same-sex relationships on...