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- Title
Right to life and its guarantees through the norms of the New Romanian Criminal Code (2014).
- Authors
Răducanu, Ruxandra
- Abstract
The new Criminal Code which came into force on February 1, 2014 includes new provisions that constitute a guarantee of protection accorded to the right to life by the rules of criminal law. Thereby the criminalization of a new crime called murder on the victim's request means, on one hand, from the legislator's optical point of view, the express provision of criminal sanctions euthanasia and, on the other hand, a distinct and attenuated sanction regime for these facts, which has its justification in the repeated, persistent and conscious request of the victim but also the mercy and compassion that led the offender to surrender to the request of the victim. New regulations are found in the matters of criminalization, determination or facilitation of the suicide, this regarding the delimitation and differential sanctioning of acts committed on minors or persons with diminished judgment. The importance accorded by the Romanian legislator to protect the right to life results not only from these new regulations, but mainly from the fact that the crimes against life are now placed in the first title of the special part of the Criminal Code from 2014, unlike the Criminal Code of 1969, where the first title regards offenses against state security, emphasizing state protection before protecting human rights and freedoms.
- Subjects
CRIMINAL codes; MURDER -- Law &; legislation; INTERNATIONAL sanctions; CRIMINAL law; RIGHT to life (International law); CRIMINAL liability
- Publication
Revista de Stiinte Politice / Revue des Sciences Politiques, 2014, Issue 41, p34
- ISSN
1584-224X
- Publication type
Article