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Death penalty
Hermanovský, Daniel ; Vanduchová, Marie (advisor) ; Jelínek, Jiří (referee)
Death penalty Death penalty is one of the most controversial sentences in the history of mankind. It was known even 2000 years B. C. and the most famous civilizations as Roman Empire or ancient Greeks were using it. Later in 19th century we can hear first strong voices demanding abolishment of death penalty. The Pioneer was Cesare Beccaria and his work Dei delitti e delle pene. Nowadays 95 countries have abolished death penalty for all crimes, 9 countries abolished it for ordinary crimes and 35 countries have death penalty among sentences but they do not use it. In Czechoslovakia there was death penalty almost through whole existence of Czechoslovakia. It was abolished not until year 1990, after "velvet revolution". Methods of executions have always been very different and they varied depending on the place and time. Among the most known belongs crucifixion, burning to death, decapitation, guillotine, hanging, gas chamber, electric chair and lethal injection. In my dissertation I have to mention two very different countries which still use capital punishment to a large extent. These are United States of America and China. In the USA capital punishment has a long history and nothing seems to suggest that something is going to change even though there were executions of innocent people or executions which...
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