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Death penalty
Fuksa, Filip ; Císařová, Dagmar (advisor) ; Hořák, Jaromír (referee)
Death Penalty - Summary As the theme of my thesis, I've chosen the death penalty. The death penalty is phenomenon that accompanies mankind from the earliest time. Although the capital punishment is currently on decline and it has been abolished in many countries of the world, it is still a topic that arouses passionate debate. In the Czech Republic, the death penalty was abolished more than twenty years ago, but the majority of the population in the opinion polls calling for its renewal. Therefore I decided to mainly deal with the question of the acceptability of the death penalty, and to work with the alternatives offered by our legal system. In the introduction of my thesis I've determined the range of subtopics, which I will pursue and I have asked the questions that I had during work to answer. The whole thesis is divided into eight main chapters, which are further divided into subchapters. The first chapter is devoted to the concept and purpose of the punishment. The first subchapter deals with the concept of punishment. I summarize here the historical theories about the purpose of punishment, both retributive theory, utilitarian theory and combined theories. In the last subchapter I describe the purpose of punishment in today's Czech criminal law. The second chapter briefly describes the death...
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