NCJ Number
156690
Journal
Belugyi Szemle Volume: 33 Issue: 1 Dated: (January 1995) Pages: 15-20
Date Published
1995
Length
6 pages
Annotation
Capital punishment in Hungary is examined in view of crime patterns and trends in the last few years and previous debates over the abolition of capital punishment.
Abstract
In the early 1980's, debate about the necessity of the abolition of capital punishment concluded that the death penalty is a necessary but undesirable type of punishment and that as penal sanctions develop, it will be abolished at some future time. The author is head of the department at the Faculty of Law at Eotvos Lorand University and a member of the League Against the Death Penalty founded in 1989. The author has had an active role in abolishing capital punishment in Hungary. 10 references (Publisher abstract modified)