Considerazioni etico-filosofiche sulla pena di morte

Abstract

The death penalty, called also punishment capital, it is an individual’s killing ordered subsequently by a court to a sentence. To confirm “no to the death penalty”, it means to firmly sustain in negative way this particular form of punishment, that should have an educational effect, rehabilitation of the person of the offender and not suppressive. In the Resolution on moratory of the death penalty of the U.N. of November 15 th 2007, recalling the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the man, you/he/she has exhorted States that you/they maintain such tool of negative justice to abolish her/it completely and, in the meantime, to establish a moratory on the executions. The encyclical Evangelium vitae, confirms the uselessness of the death penalty towards any form of crime, today judicial systems of guardianship exist and safety social, very more effective to avoid that the same crime repeats him.

Key words: death penalty, Universal Declaration of the Rights of the man, person.