Die ächtung der todesstrafe aus sicht des internationalen rechts

• Autores: Frank Höpfel
• Localización: Working together towards the universal abolition of the death penalty, / Maria Loredana Idomir (ed. lit.), Matthias Keuschnigg (ed. lit.), Michael Platzer (ed. lit.), 2012, págs. 19-21
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • Prof. Höpfel emphasizes the rapid expansion of fundamental human rights in Europa so that capital punishment no longer has a place.

    He begins with the International Military Tribunal of Nurnberg. The focus at present lies on the Rome Statute of the International Court of Justice which disallows capital punishment even for mass murderers. Thus great progress has been achieved with exceptions in authoritarian states and the execution of Saddam Hussein . The consensus is that in a democratic state such a punishment has no place anymore.

    The norms prescribed in international criminal law translate into national legislation and obligations as well. Prof. Höpfel gives three instances of such positive developments: Rwanda (the death penalty is now abolished in the entire country), U.S. (direct application of international conventions protecting the rights of children against the execution ), and Austria (the case of a firm in Innsbruck that was close to being charged with complicity to murder for exporting chemicals used for the executions in the U.S.).