right to life - a fundamental basis of modern jurisprudence.Most criminal codes of the twentieth century, one way or another, have argued that nobody has the right to kill people, but with a caveat: if the court decided to execute someone, then so be it.This situation imposes on jurors and prosecutors enormous responsibility.On the facade of the Palace of Justice in France, there is an inscription calling remember miller, once condemned to death by mistake.Unfortunately, the misuse of the sentence no one is immune, but the reason that most of the countries that call themselves civilized, abandoned the practice of forcibly killing people, even the guilty, lies in the moral and ethical plane.
penalty as a kind of revenge
Mass executions of women, children and the elderly, organized by the Nazis during the Second World War, most were killed in retaliation for the underground and partisans Wehrmacht soldiers.At the same time there was a definite factor, clearly showing how many times the life of German is valued higher than, for example, Slav or Frenchman.In a democratic structure of the state is generally not acted.Serial killers can still shoot only once, regardless of the number of victims.However, any execution of this never ceased to be a place.Especially the disgusting punishment of women and adolescents, regardless of the severity of their crimes.Is there a moral right to the state to get such a position?Not whether it should be higher instincts inherent in every human being?If the task of preventing the commission of crimes in the future specific killer, then, obviously, it simply must be isolated from society until the end of his days.
penalty as the elimination of witnesses
hanging major Nazi war criminals by the verdict of the Nuremberg Court of Justice also served.If tens of millions of victims of war after their death were raised, such a decision could be regarded as completely justified.However, given the importance of their testimony in relation to historical circumstances, many of which have not been clarified to this day, this is very similar to the massacre of the elimination of witnesses, which were interested in the head of the victorious countries.Approximately the same reason, apparently, was hastily hanged Saddam Hussein.
«humane" executions
In relation to the delinquent the fair sex more often used a "more humane" ways of killing.Executions of women in case of pregnancy were postponed to the forty-first day after birth.Also interesting is the custom to treat and maintain the condemned to the gallows only after he recovers.Equally entertaining and adopted in some countries used to treat the convict, regardless of gender, delicious lunch just before his hanging, firing squad or guillotine.Tradition demonstrates the sophistication to organizers executions.In general, the execution of women held about the same as men, if not take into account the special tyazhkost "parent" crimes, such as infanticide, which in the Middle Ages were punished by burying alive.This company understands the immorality of the spectacle, which is a public executions.Women in Germany, the men of the area for savoring the agonizing death of the condemned, awaiting public reprimand.
