On October 9, 2021, to mark the 40th anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty in France, Emmanuel Macron announced during a speech at the Pantheon, the organization of a "meeting at the highest level", at the beginning of 2022, to "convince" the leaders of the countries still applying it of "the urgency of abolishing it".
The bill on the abolition of the death penalty was adopted in France by the National Assembly on September 18, 1981, four months after the election of François Mitterrand to the Élysée, then on September 30 by the senators.
The scrapping of the guillotine was enacted on October 9, 1981.
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