Death penalty
What is death
Penalty?
Death penalty, also called capital punishment, is when a government or state executes someone. Usually, but not always because they have committed a serious crime.
Death penalty in Denmark
Death penalty, also called capital punishment, is when a government or state executes someone. Usually, but not always because they have committed a serious crime.
Death penalty in Denmark
Denmark abolished the death penalty for common crimes
the 15th of april 1933. The former law (Common Civil Criminal Code
of 1866) was entitled for death penalty for such crimes as murder and crimes
against the state.
Death penalty was maintained in the military criminal
law, for some crimes that were committed during peacetime.
Death penalty was reintroduced after 2nd world war,
while there was being passed a special law with retroactive effect (The Country
Traitor Law).
The military criminal law abolished the death penalty
the 3rd of May 1978
In the year of 1993 the death penalty was abolished
completely. The law was passed the 22nd of December 1993 with effect
from the 1st of January 1994.
Where did the executions take place?
There were two locations for executions in Denmark.
The first one was the Undallslund plantation close the
city of Viborg. Here 17 war criminals got executed
How did the executions take place?
The convicted war criminals got executed with gun fire
from Danish police officers. The executions were secretly completed during
nighttime.
Who was there during the executions?
Besides, from the police officers there was a priest,
two doctors and a representative from the state attorney. The state attorney’s
job was to order the police officers to shoot. The doctors were there to
declare the convicted criminal dead. The priest was supposed to provide mental
support to the criminal.
Our opinion
there is both good things and bad things about death penalty.
We are afraid that if death penalty still existed in Denmark today, it could and or would be abused. For example if a boy stole something at a store, he might get a death penalty because what he stole was valuable.
there is both good things and bad things about death penalty.
We are afraid that if death penalty still existed in Denmark today, it could and or would be abused. For example if a boy stole something at a store, he might get a death penalty because what he stole was valuable.
The good thing about death penalty is if there were a
person that killed another person, then he will be gone forever instead of
being able to kill more people, after he comes out of prison.
Death penalty in Poland
In Poland, the death penalty
has not been used since 1988 (the last sentence was on April 21, 1988 in the
Cracow prison, where Stanislaw Czabanski was sentenced for rape and murder).
In the Middle Ages, the death penalty was the part of
the common law. Sentences to death were pronounced for murder, rape, robbery,
arson, betrayal against the ruler or country or counterfeiting of coins.
Criminals were executed with the use of the breaking wheel, by decapitation,
lapidation, quartering, burning on the stake, impalement or hanging.
Afterwards, King Casimir the Great introduced
so-called Statutes, which imposed the death penalty also for wheedling benefits
out of the county royal, stealing the taxes or rotation of the foreign coin.
The resolution of the parliament from 1586 imposed the death penalty for acts
against morality and good manners (sodomy, homosexuality), acts against public
order, conspiracies against municipal authorities, kidnapping and wilful
murders.
The death penalty by execution was used for the most
serious crimes, such as murder, high treason, serving of a Polish citizen in
the army of the enemy and also for civil servants' corruption. The death
penalty was also used to punish people for disclosure of state secrets if it
did great harm to the state security or during the war.
During the Stalinist period 1944-1956, the death
penalty was often used. At that time, in 100 prisons nearly 3500 people were
executed. They were political opponents rather than criminals. In this way,
many fighters for freedom and independence of Poland were killed. Altogether,
from 1956 to 1988 in People’s Republic of Poland 321 people were sentenced to
death.
On September 1, 1998 the death penalty was abolished
by new Penal Code from 1997 and replaced by life imprisonment.
Made by: Weronika
Kielar, Gabriela Gierlach, Rasmus Taklo and Tobias Hoyer
0 komentarze :
Post a Comment