Revived Debate on the Death Penalty in the Political Scene
Even after the abolition of capital punishment, the debate over whether it was right to abolish the death penalty or whether it should be reinstated flared up again and again. Although Hungary is a party to several international conventions prohibiting th
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Changing Attitudes Towards the Death Penalty
Zoltan J. Toth
Changing Attitudes Towards the Death Penalty Hungary’s Renewed Support for Capital Punishment
Zoltan J. Toth Department of Legal History and Jurisprudence Károli Gáspár University Budapest, Hungary
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Contents
Part I Death Penalty Debates in the Twentieth and TwentyFirst Century: Pros and Cons 1 1 Introduction 3 2 The Deterrent Effect: From An a priori Logic 9 3 Capital Punishment as an Inhumane Punishment 13 4 Necessity or Lack of Need for Capital Punishment 25 5 Miscarriage of Justice 35 6 The Goal of Punishment 49 7 Economic Considerations 55 8 Other Reasons for and Against Capital Punishment 61
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Part II A Case Study of Capital Punishment in Hungary in the Twentieth Century 75 9 Statutory Regulation of Capital Punishment in Hungary during the Horthy Era and World War II 81 10 The Death Penalty in the Years after Liberation from Nazi Occupation and During the Establishment of the Soviet Dictatorship 95 11 Capital Punishment in the First Decade of State Socialism119 12 Capital Punishment in the 1960s and 1970s131 13 The Act No. IV of 1978 on the Criminal Code of Hungary145 14 The End Time of the Death Penalty in Hungary: Two Steps of the Abolition in 1989/90159 Part III The Politicization of Capital Punishment in Hungary: Renewed Cont
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