In a ruling rendered Tuesday, the Court of Cassation refused to restore the honor of Jacques Fesch, beheaded in 1957 for the murder of a police officer, a request for rehabilitation brought for decades by his son.
It was the final legal battle of his life, the investment of a lifetime. On Tuesday, the Court of Cassation did not grant Gérard Fesch the rehabilitation of his father, Jacques, sentenced to death and executed on 1is October 1957 for the murder of a police officer. His request was rejected.given the insufficiency of the pledges of amendment presented by the condemned person before his execution», underlines the judgment. If the court recognized “the good behavior of the convicted person towards prison staff and his fellow prisoners as well as the regret for his actions and their consequences expressed to certain people or in writings“, she judged that it was insufficient “in view of the seriousness and multiplicity of the crimes committed by the convicted person». That «the reality of compensation for victims has not been established» ; that «the religious approach of the condemned cannot be analyzed in itself as a guarantee of amendment».
Rehabilitation, “measure of benevolence established by law…
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