Swiss government has allowed the death penalty supporters began collecting signatures of citizens activities, if they are on Feb. 24, 2012 100 000 prior to assembly to support the signature, can request a referendum vote on whether or reintroduce the death penalty that has been disabled in Switzerland 70 year sentence. States continue to abolish the death penalty came in the voice of the background, Switzerland to discuss reinstating the death penalty, rather concern.
Back in 1874, Switzerland on the constitutional level, try to abolish the death penalty in 1942 from China and France abolished the death penalty, abolished the death penalty in 1994 to sign the International Convention.
But in recent years, Switzerland s social security situation is worrying.
Last year, a 16 year old girl missing at the train station, 8 days later his body was found in an apartment, sexually assaulted and killed her murderer is the apartment owner, a 25 year old man with murder, criminal records. Girl s death in Switzerland led to a pair of murderers should be sentenced to death is a big discussion. A spokesman for the Swiss judicial authorities said the high incidence of domestic rape cases, but there are 1 / 4 of the rapist has never been in prison. Swiss community have criticized the existing law is too lenient, that related to sexual assault and murder, especially when the victim is young, the death penalty is the only just punishment.
Switzerland, the situation is actually the world s ambivalence about the death penalty as a microcosm. Currently, more than 100 countries and territories have abolished the death penalty law or fact, but the United States, Japan, represented by the developed countries still retained the death penalty. In recent years, some law or in fact abolished the death penalty, calls for the restoration of the death penalty is also prevalent.
For example, in 1996, Russia suspended the death penalty, in March this year, the Moscow metro blast case Fa Sheng Hou, the Russian House of Lords Kaishikaolv right Cilei crime is Chongkaisixing; Poland as Jia Ru Fei Chu European Union in 1997 has the death penalty in 2005 Caccin Gaussian power, advocated restoration of the death penalty for murder. Some reservations about the death penalty, but in fact very few countries and regions for more recently slaughter.
200 years, the abolition of the death penalty dispute focused on whether the death penalty deterrence, whether the violation of the constitution, it can prevent wrongful convictions, whether issues of humanity. In some countries, when the battle both sides are evenly matched, with each side, the ruling power is often delivered to the public, such as a referendum.
When most people agree that abolished the death penalty, the death penalty would cease to exist, this result seems to show that abolition of capital punishment prevailed. However, society does not care about ordinary people do not know whether the death penalty deterrent like the legal issues, which judgment basis from their own lives and social environment. If the government abolish the death penalty, preferential treatment criminals, not protect the safety of law abiding citizens a minimum, the threat to people s lives, property, violent crime increased situation take no effective response measures against the victim after the crime, not violence adequate measures to heal the wounds of his body and soul, then the ordinary people in addition to the weak based on the natural sympathy and revenge on the criminals using the death penalty impulses generated outside, but also ask them what is more reason the judge does ?
Therefore, with the abolition of the death penalty save, I am afraid not a struggle between ideas, but on the concrete real life judge, the case of Switzerland is such a case.
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