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2023-12-02 -Lurid Crime Tales-
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Execute or exchange. What to do with Daria Trepova
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Sergey Khudiev
[REGNUM] TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov proposed returning the death penalty to Russia. According to him, “if Daria Trepova is exchanged, then what will stop the next killers? They will exchange you, somewhere there they will greet you as a heroine and give you a lot of money. Capital punishment must be returned precisely for this purpose - so that there is no illusion that punishment can be avoided.” Let me remind you that Daria Trepova, according to the investigation, was the perpetrator of the terrorist attack, as a result of which military correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky was killed and dozens more people were wounded.
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Conversations about reinstating the death penalty arise constantly - especially in connection with some high-profile crimes - and, judging by comments on the Internet, arouse lively enthusiasm.
It seems to people that stopping evil is not so difficult - you just need to abandon immoderate humanism and boldly send villains to their deaths. Despite the popularity of this point of view, it is wrong.
First of all, the moratorium on the death penalty exists not in the interests of criminals - but in the interests of law-abiding citizens.
The legal system is not infallible—not in any country in the world. And it will not be infallible in the future. Suspicion of serious crimes can also fall on innocent people. It happens. This is usually found out when the case is re-examined and the wrongly convicted are released. Sometimes they manage to spend decades behind bars.
But in the absence of the death penalty, a wrongfully convicted person can at least be released.
It is impossible to resurrect an executed person.
Execution not only makes honest mistakes irreversible, but also creates more favorable conditions for corruption. The wrongfully executed man lies in the ground and does not write complaints, does not seek a review of the case, cannot give any testimony - which, you see, is very convenient for those who sent him to death.
Abuses of the death penalty, as we should remember, took on especially grandiose proportions in the era of mass repression - when even completely loyal citizens could be subjected to slander, torture investigation and execution. Then they were found innocent - but by that time their bodies had long since decayed in the ground.
Abolition of the death penalty is one of the safeguards that keeps society from slipping back to where we have already been.
Execution involves a performer, an executioner. A man who will put a bullet not into an armed enemy on the battlefield, but into an unarmed and unresponsive person. Whether the villain himself deserved death or not, no one deserved to be the executioner.
Behind the proposals to return the death penalty is an understandable desire to give the villains what they deserve. Evil should not triumph, the scoundrel should not boast that he got away with everything. He must be forced to realize that he should not have acted that way. He must - if not at the level of sincere repentance, then at least at the level of bitter consequences - understand that he has made the most serious mistake in his life.
But life imprisonment serves this purpose much better than the death penalty. A shot (which the condemned man will not even have time to hear) cannot produce the same effect as the clanging of prison gates, which are closed behind the criminal forever - and he has many years ahead when he will wake up with full awareness of where he is - and why he is here hit.
It is understandable that concerned people would want the threat to be reliably eliminated. Criminals should not walk the same streets as our loved ones. But this is achieved by life imprisonment. A weak (or weakened as a result of unrest) state is unable to keep criminals under lock and key and is forced to resort to the death penalty. But this, thank God, does not apply to our state.
Another consideration is that execution should deter potential criminals. The question of the effectiveness of such a measure has been studied for a very long time within the framework of criminology, a scientific discipline that studies crime and measures to combat it.
As it turns out, the death penalty not only does not deter crime, but sometimes helps to worsen the situation, because a criminal facing execution has nothing to lose, and he easily commits new crimes.
It has long been noted that the inevitability of punishment is much more important than its severity - because the criminal always hopes to avoid capture.
Whether Daria Trepova should be traded is a completely separate question. So far, as far as we know, no one has proposed such an exchange. They exchange soldiers who were captured on the battlefield, failed intelligence officers - but exchanging participants in terrorist attacks would be at least unusual. And, indeed, it is fraught with the worst consequences - first of all, the legitimization of terrorism as a course of action.
An enemy soldier is one thing, a terrorist (ka) who blows up his own fellow citizens in a cafe is something completely different.
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