Execution of the Death Penalty in Contrast with Rules of Human RightsInternational Law Documents
Execution is the most important form of corporal punishment because it's life is endangered and destroyed. The death penalty is not the right of society, but the result of a struggle and conflict between a society and a citizen, which ultimately considers the destruction of the accused necessary and useful. Because the happiness of the society is that the right to life and the right to freedom are limited to preserving and observing the life and freedom of others. The right to life, apart from being an inherent and existential human right, also seems from a moral point of view. The commission of important crimes has been partially admitted. The purpose of executing punishment, other than its punitive aspect, is to intimidate the individual and socially rehabilitate the offender, none of which will occur in the execution of the death penalty. This research is qualitative and the method of doing it is library. The results of the study showed that human rights instruments of international law in general and in particular explain the protection of the right to life and consider its violation applicable only in certain circumstances.