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Legal and International Prohibition of the Death Penalty in the Light of the Amnesty International’s 2013 report
Angelika Mielniczuk
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The death penalty is the oldest form of sanction which has existed in all epochs in the history of humanity. Its justification was associated with the principle of retaliation and belief in the deterrent function of this penalty. The arguments concerning the lack of legitimacy of the use of the death penalty appeared for the first time in the Enlightenment. Thereafter, abolitionists have aimed at restricting the list of crimes resulting in capital punishment and aimed at abolishing the death penalty in general. The aim of this article is to describe the formation of legal and international regulations which have aimed at abolishing the death penalty since the establishment of United Nations, as well as to present Amnesty International`s report which specifies the global trend in imposing the death sentences and carrying out the executions in 2013.
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death penalty, human rights, right to life, Amnesty InternationalMost read articles by the same author(s)
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