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Capital Punishment as a Form of Punishment (M. N. Gernet’s Estimates)
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Capital Punishment as a Form of Punishment (M. N. Gernet’s Estimates)
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S1605-65900000622-5-1
DOI
10.12737/jrp.2023.019
Publication type
Article
Status
Published
Authors
Alexander I. Chuchaev 
ORCID: 0000-0002-5144-052X
Occupation: Head of the Sector of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminology
Affiliation: Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: Moscow, Russia
Edition
Volume 27 No. 2
Pages
88-100
Abstract

The author of the article made an attempt to characterize the views of the prominent Russian humanist scientist M. N. Gernet regarding the death penalty, its legal nature, the history of its origin and development, the legality of recognition as a type of criminal punishment, compliance with the religious, moral foundations of society and the prospects of existence. At the same time, the positions of other criminologists, specialists in the general theory of law, sociology, theology, as well as priests, writers and publicists are being investigated.

The purpose of the study is to determine the views of M. N. Gernet on the legality of the death penalty use as a criminal punishment. To achieve this goal, the following tasks are being solved: the time of the legislative consolidation of the death penalty as a type of criminal punishment is being clarified, its differences from pre-trial punishment are being determined; the legal nature of the death penalty is being determined; the criminal policy of the state in different periods of Russia's development in relation to this type of punishment is being investigated; the positions of criminologists, sociologists, theologians and representatives of other branches of science on the conformity of the analyzed type of punishment to the national, moral, cultural, religious foundations of society, as well as the purpose of the death penalty, in particular general prevention, are considered.

Research methods: dogmatic, comparative legal, historical, etc.

Conclusions: a) M. N. Gernet opposed the death penalty, seeing it as more evil than good in crime prevention; b) considered its use immoral, and this punishment itself corrupting both the government and the population; c) justified the exclusion of the death penalty from the legislation, including the impossibility of correcting judicial errors; d) the position of the scientist is supported not only by his contemporaries, but also by many criminologists of post-Soviet Russia.

Keywords
criminal law, M. N. Gernet, death penalty, Russkaya Pravda, Dvina Charter, legal nature, death penalty and moral foundations of society, views of criminologists and theologians, prospects of the death penalty
Date of publication
20.02.2023
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