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Attitudes Towards the Death Penalty - May 2017
Tuček, Milan
In its May's survey, the Public Opinion Research Centre examined attitudes of Czech citizens towards the death penalty. On the one hand, questions in the survey concerned the general view, whether the death penalty should exist in the Czech Republic, or not, on the other hand, they probed, in what extent people agree, or disagree, with different particular statements about the death penalty. 53 % of respondents hold the view the death penalty should exist in the Czech Republic.
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Death sentence
Hodrmentová, Michaela ; Vanduchová, Marie (advisor) ; Jelínek, Jiří (referee)
This thesis deals with one of the instruments of criminal law, specifically with the death penalty. The death penalty is already for many years a controversial topic and discussed it around the world. Even if this penalty many states have several years or decades canceled or not applied it, greatly debating whether they should be re-imposed. After an introductory explanation of why I chose the death penalty as a topic of my thesis, followed by a treatise about punishment, its kinds, purpose together with theories that look at this, and more specifically about what exactly is meant by the term death penalty and how the purpose of already listed, relates specifically to it. In the next part of my work we find general historical development of this institute, development of capital punishment in the Czech Republic and international documents concerning human rights and also my theme. In the context of the general historical development we look at how the death penalty looked like in antiquity, the Middle Ages, the period of absolutism gradually until we get to the present. Within Czech countries will focus on the developments till 1918, during the first republic, the Protectorate period, the postwar development and the development until 1990, when the death penalty was abolished in our country....
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Death penalty and the waiver of the right to life by committing an extremely serious crime
Neradová, Kateřina ; Bílková, Veronika (advisor) ; Ondřej, Jan (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to define, what is the position of right to life in the system of protection of human rights and whether is the death penalty a justifiable institute in international human rights law. The thesis focuses on the death penalty and its history in connection with the right to life as an inherent human right. It explores the conventions, protocols and resolutions that are related to the matter. The thesis is divided into seven chapters, whereas first of them is introduction, where the author asks questions about vindicability of the capital punishment. That is followed by a brief history of the death penalty and explanation of the purpose of the punishment. Following chapter looks into a view of international society on the death penalty, summing up views of international governmental organizations, as well as non- governmental. Fundamental part of the thesis is a chapter disserting on the right to life, its history, where we can find right to life in international law, interpretation of right to life and case law. Last chapter deals with an issue of a crime as an act of forfeiting the right to life. The analysis consists of criticizing the conclusions made in the course of the thesis and propositions of further possibilities.
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Death Penalty in the People's Republic of China
Vítková, Kristina ; Klimeš, Ondřej (advisor) ; Hudeček, Jiří (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the view on the death penalty problematic in contemporary People's Republic of China from the perspective of the organization China Against Death Penalty (CADP) and its founder, a human rights activist, Dr. Teng Biao. The focal point of this thesis lies particularly on one hand in the analysis of the CADP Report, a document compiled by CADP, which describes the situation tied with potential abolition of the death penalty and discusses the relevant amendments to the criminal law and criminal procedure law, on the other hand in depicting the opinions of Teng Biao and putting them in context with available English written materials on the subject of death penalty in China. The thesis begins with an introduction of Teng Biao and the CADP itself, then describes CADP's view on the current situation around the death penalty and the recent legislative changes concerning the capital punishment. The last part of this thesis speculates about the possible future development of the death penalty in Chinese cultural and legislative environment. This thesis also provides a glossary and a list of capital offences as stipulated by the Criminal Law of the PRC.
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Attitudes toward the death penalty in the Czech Republic
Trojanová, Eva ; Vávra, Martin (advisor) ; Šafr, Jiří (referee)
My diploma work follows up Czech Republic inhabitants' attitudes toward the death penalty. It also describes changes in death penalty perception in terms of historical aspect, its presentation to public society, changes in approach to death penalty and violence in general over time. It deals with execution types development, executioner's social position and craft. It brings elementary thoughts of advocates and opponents of the death penalty and describes related contemporary situation in the world. All these chapters are included for broader context description to allow me better use and identify results from the survey. The other part of my diploma work is survey with focus on attitudes toward the death penalty in Czech Republic. It was conducted in 2012-13, based on online respondent panel, with use of quantitative methods. This market research survey was executed on Millward Brown Czech Republic online panel with sample of 821 respondents. Results basically deliver knowledge of relation between attitudes toward the death penalty and sociodemographics, main arguments for and against the death penalty, clarifies the relation between attitudes toward the death penalty and some factors such as experience with crime or death penalty basic facts knowledge. I also evaluated if respondents' attitudes...
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Death penalty
Jenerálová, Nela ; Tlapák Navrátilová, Jana (advisor) ; Vanduchová, Marie (referee)
This thesis deals with the insitute of death penalty, from the point of view of international, european and national law. Thesis is focused on a few main areas, it describes the concept and function of punishment in general, the historical developement of capital punishment, especially in czech lands, the current legislation related to the issues, regulation of the death penalty in selected states of the world, the issues of an exceptional punishment including legal requirements for its storage, methods of capital punishment which were used in the past including present methods, public opinion on death penalty and especially the arguments for and against the death penalty from the perspective of author. The issues of an exceptional punishment is described more in detail in thesis, because author considers this issues an adequate alternative for capital punishment.
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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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