Právo na život a trest smrti
114 Right to life and the death penalty - Summary Perhaps no other topic has been subject to so many heated discussions like the topic of my thesis, in which there is a conflict between everyone's fundamental human right, namely the right to life on the one part, and the state's right to i...
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-273982 |
| Summary: | 114 Right to life and the death penalty - Summary Perhaps no other topic has been subject to so many heated discussions like the topic of my thesis, in which there is a conflict between everyone's fundamental human right, namely the right to life on the one part, and the state's right to impose death penalty on some individuals that have committed a been convicted of certain crimes on the other part. Both advocates for and objectors to death penalty list many arguments for and against the capital punishment. As results from the conclusions I made in my thesis, some of the retentionists' arguments are seriously flawed. I was not able to prove the deterrent effect of death penalty and the related generally preventive function of capital punishment in relation to the most serious crimes. On the contrary, there are many cases where nations that do not have capital punishment in their legal systems have a lower level of the most serious criminality than nations using death penalty. The clear-up rate and the inevitability of punishment have a bigger effect than the harshness of punishment. The argument that the public opinion is significantly in favour of death penalty and thus the abolition of death penalty could result in less trust in the law is also very weak. A high level of support for capital punishment in... |
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