to death have long been skeptical.Sentenced to it at different times for very different offenses, but in recent years its use - for especially grave crimes for illegal repeatedly causing death to others, and only in the most exceptional cases.In most cases, the verdict in court trying to change in the long-term or life imprisonment, or the condemned could be pardoned by the highest official, such as the president.Few people know, but in Russia the death penalty only in 1999, ceased to be used actually.But it has not been able to cancel up to date.
What is death?
consider this in more detail.Capital punishment has appeared before came up with the criminal law.We used it quite often for serious crimes are literally all over the world.The death penalty - an extreme punishment, because it deprives a person sentenced to her, the most valuable, that he had, that is life, its existence among the people.In each country, it is expressed in different ways.In Russia, in recent years its use of the death penalty is expressed in the form of the execution of the convicted, but before our country declared by the Russian Federation, many monarchs often used a variety of types of penalty.In other civilized countries, it was more developed (if you can call it) and is manifested in the stoning, hanging, burning at the stake, the electric chair, the gas poisoning, shooting, breaking on the wheel, quartering.
How prescribed the death penalty?
When a person is tried for the committed a particularly serious crime or some such, then, as a rule, first consider other, more lenient penalties, and if the court failed to elect another measure due to the severity of the acts committed, in the course of courtproceedings recognizes the right to use the death penalty against prisoners.Removal of the sentence, which almost all countries comes into force immediately.In cases where there is capital punishment, verdict, after its entry into force, is checked by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, and then considered by the Commission of the Russian President for clemency.And just in case none of the above organizations do not appeal against the sentence, then the death penalty take place.
Types penalty - what are they like?
Most species have devised their own harsh penalty "fathers" of our state.For example, Ivan the Terrible was still what the experimenter in this area.Only during his reign it was executed over a thousand people, and how rarely repeated.Someone ordered the king to hang up, the other on his stomach to put the cage without a bottom, in which there was a hungry rat, it gradually eats away the body of the offender at the organ, until he died.Some were buried alive, others were tied to a pole and each of the courtiers of the king in turn had to cut a piece of meat, and so neat that the perpetrator as long as possible tormented.Substitute the tube to the stomach was sentenced with a rat inside, the other side of which was closed grille and set on fire.Rat, fearing ruthless fire gnaw its way out through the internal man.Witches and sorcerers were burned.Stoked for different, even the most stupid offenses, and did not spare even the elderly and children!Fill the throat of hot metal (usually counterfeiters).These horrible massacres of prisoners can transfer indefinitely.The imagination of our predecessors worked perfectly.Only now whether those people are so offended to the rest of the people?
Higher measure of restraint in the USSR
death penalty in the Soviet Union has already acquired a certain kind - shot, rarely hanging.And it is usually used only in times of wars and political repression such famous leader, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev.And when came to power Boris Yeltsin, he was almost immediately introduced a moratorium on the death penalty, and then it actually ceased to apply.
