Journal section JURISPRUDENCE
Death penalty: for and cons
The article considers such a form of implementation of criminal liability as the death penalty. The subject of scientific research is a set of theoretical and practical aspects related to the genesis of this type of punishment. The authors analyze the position of scientists on the appointment of the death penalty and the effectiveness of its implementation. The publication provides examples from domestic investigative-judicial practice related to the most resonant criminal cases and sentences to this type of punishment. The article contains the results of representative sociological studies conducted in our country on the issue of abolishing or maintaining the death penalty in criminal law. As a conclusion authors’ recommendations are proposed to the domestic legislator on further regulatory regulation of this type of punishment in the modern legal system in accordance with international obligations and the situation in the Russian Federation.
Keywords: criminal liability; type of implementation of criminal liability; the problem of theory and law enforcement practice; criminal law relation; crime prevention optimization; effective implementation; the death penalty; punishment
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, Associate Professor of the Chair of Legal
Disciplines of the Tambov Branch of the Russian Presidential
Academy of National Economy and Public Administration,
PhD. in Law, Associate Professor.
, e-mail dvoretskiy-68@mail.ru
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Associate Professor of the Department
of Legal Disciplines of the Tambov Branch of the Russian
Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public
Administration, PhD. in Law.
, e-mail alinaanapolskaya@mail.ru
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and legislation on crimes and punishments]. Moscow, 1841. 269 p. (In Russ.).
3. Bekkaria CH. O prestupleniyah i nakazaniyah [About crimes and punishments]. Moscow, 2004. 184 p. (In Russ.).
4. Bojkov A. O smertnoj kazni [About the death penalty]. Zakonnost’ – Legality, 1999, no. 8, pp. 36–38. (In Russ.).
5. Vicin S. E. Vremya kaznit’ v Rossii zakonchilos’? [Is the time to execute in Russia over?]. Rossijskaya yusticiya – Russian
justice, 1999, no. 3, pp. 10–12. (In Russ.).
6. Goreglyad O. I. Opyt nachertaniya rossijskogo ugolovnogo prava [Experience in the writing of Russian criminal law]. St.
Petersburg, 1815. 224 p. (In Russ.).
7. Dvoreckij M. YU. Effektivnaya realizaciya ugolovnoj otvetstvennosti kak optimal’noe sredstvo preduprezhdeniya
prestuplenij i prestupnosti [Effective implementation of criminal liability as an optimal means of crime and crime prevention].
Tambov, 2009. 667 p. (In Russ.).
8. Desnickij S. E. Slovo o prichinah smertnyh kaznej po delam kriminal’nym [A word about the causes of capital punishment
in criminal cases]. Moscow, 1770. 26 p. (In Russ.).
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Evolution and Perspectives. Author’s abstract of the diss. PhD. in Law]. Rostov-on-Don, 2001. 28 p. (In Russ.).
10. Dobren’kov V. I. Molchanie pogubit nas [Silence will destroy us]. Sovetskaya Rossiya – Soviet Russia, 2002, September
10th. (In Russ.).
11. Duyunov V. K. Problemy ugolovnogo nakazaniya v teorii, zakonodatel’stve i sudebnoj praktike [Problems of criminal
punishment in theory, law and judicial practice]. Kursk, 2000. 504 p. (In Russ.).
12. ZHil’cov S. V. Smertnaya kazn’ v istorii Rossii [The death penalty in the history of Russia]. Moscow, 2002. 464 p. (In
Russ.).
13. ZHil’cov S. V., Mal’ko A. V. Smertnaya kazn’ v Rossii. Istoriya. Politika. Pravo [The death penalty in Russia. History.
Politics. Right]. Moscow, 2002. 464 p. (In Russ.).
14. Karpec I. I. Pol’za ili zlo? [Good or evil?]. Smertnaya kazn’: za i protiv [Death Penalty: Pros and Cons]. Moscow, 1989,
pp. 350–366. (In Russ.).
15. Kelina S. G. Kogda ubivaet gosudarstvo: smertnaya kazn’ protiv prav cheloveka [When the State Kills: The Death Penalty
Against Human Rights]. Moscow, 1989. 421 p. (In Russ.).
16. Kelina S. G. Smertnaya kazn’ v sisteme ugolovnoj politiki [The death penalty in the criminal policy system]. Smertnaya
kazn’: za i protiv [Death Penalty: Pros and Cons]. Moscow, 1989, pp. 322–333. (In Russ.).
17. Kistyakovskij A. F. Issledovanie o smertnoj kazni [Capital punishment study]. Tula, 2000. 188 p. (In Russ.).
18. Kuz’min S. I. Pozhiznennoe lishenie svobody: vzglyad so vsekh storon [Life imprisonment: a view from all sides].
CHelovek: prestuplenie i nakazanie – Man: crime and punishment, 1999, no. 2, p. 11. (In Russ.).
19. Luneev V. V. Prestupnost’ XX veka: mirovye, regional’nye i rossijskie tendencii [Crime of the XX century: global, regional
and Russian trends]. Moscow, 2005. 912 p. (In Russ.).
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Gosudarstvo i pravo – State and law, 1998, no. 8, pp. 104–107. (In Russ.).
21. Milyukov S. F. Rossijskaya sistema nakazanij [Russian punishment system]. St. Petersburg, 1998. 48 p. (In Russ.).
22. Milyukov S. F. Rossijskoe ugolovnoe zakonodatel’stvo: opyt kriticheskogo analiza [Russian Criminal Law: A Case Study].
St. Petersburg, 2000. 279 p. (In Russ.).
23. Mihlin A. S. Vysshaya mera nakazaniya. Istoriya, sovremennost’, budushchee [Capital punishment. History, Present,
Future]. Moscow, 2000. 176 p. (In Russ.).
24. Mihlin A. S. Smertnaya kazn’ – byt’ li ej v Rossii? [The death penalty – should she be in Russia?]. ZHurnal rossijskogo
prava – Journal of Russian Law, 1998, no. 10–11, pp. 138–147. (In Russ.).
25. Orlov A. V. Smertnaya kazn’ [The death penalty]. YUrist – Lawyer, 1999, no. 1, pp. 58–63. (In Russ.).
26. Poznyshev S. V. Osnovnye nachala nauki ugolovnogo prava. Obshchaya chast’ ugolovnogo prava [The main principles
of the science of criminal law. General part of criminal law]. Moscow, 1912. 664 p. (In Russ.).
27. Spasovich V. D. Izbrannye trudy i rechi [Selected Works and Speeches]. Tula, 2000. 494 p. (In Russ.).
28. Stromov V. YU., Dvoreckij M. YU. Sistema ugolovnyh nakazanij: istoriya razvitiya, sushchnost’, celi, primenenie i
effektivnost’ [Criminal punishment system: history, essence, goals, application and effectiveness]. Tambov, 2007. 513 p.
(In Russ.).
29. Struchkov N. A. Ugolovnaya otvetstvennost’ i ee realizaciya v bor’be s prestupnost’yu [Criminal liability and its
implementation in the fight against crime]. Saratov, 1978. 288 p. (In Russ.).
30. Tagancev N. S. Russkoe ugolovnoe pravo. Lekcii. CHast’ obshchaya v 2 tomah. Tom 2 [Russian criminal law. Lectures.
Part common in 2 vol. Vol. 2]. Moscow, 1994. 393 p. (In Russ.).
