Trest smrti

• Main Author: Trojan, Ondřej
• Other Authors: Císařová, Dagmar
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: Czech
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-325567

The death penalty - resume: The death penalty or capital punishment is the oldest punishment and it is still used. The death penalty is not only a legal topic but also political, ethical and moral. There is no way how to take back this punishment after its execution and that is the reason why it is still the matter for discussions and it is one of my thesis reasons . This thesis is divided into four chapters. The first chapter is focused on history of this punishment in the world because capital punishment was used throught all human history . Ways of execution in history and current ways of execution are explained in in the rest of this chapter. The meaning of the following part is to show and explain current situation in the world and also in the Czech Republic. After that one of the most important parts of this thesis follows and this chapter is focused on argument analysis of proponents and oponents. This thesis is focused not only on open-minded analysis of arguments but it is also influenced by author's opininon . The last chapter is focused on public opinion in the Czech Republic, especially from so called velvet revolution till now. Great interest is put on public opinion progress in connection with mass-media and one of the reasons was that nobody had done it before this thesis. The number of...