The reviewable life sentence. An approach to a dehumanized criminal law

Authors

  • Laura Pascual Matellán

Keywords:

reviewable life sentence, re-socialization, human rights, sentence, Spanish Constitution

Abstract

The proposed introduction of reviewable life sentence in our Criminal Code is one of the most important changes in the Reform Project the Government intends to implement. This would imply a return to the legal codifications in place during the XIX century. This sentence would conflict with the existing articles 25.2 and 15 of the Spanish Constitution by violating the legal end of the sentence: the re-education and re-socialization of the delinquents, and it would breach too the prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatments.

We would be facing an unconstitutional and dehumanized measure with no other end than that of seeking electoral gain.

 

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Pascual Matellán, L. (2015). The reviewable life sentence. An approach to a dehumanized criminal law. Clivatge. Journal of Studies on Social Conflict and Change, (3). Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/clivatge/article/view/11981

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No. 3: Social inequality, abuse of power and change processes

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