Przeciw karze dożywotniego pozbawienia wolności w polskim prawie karnym

Abstract

In his critical approach to life sentence the author states that it does not correspond to the Modern times and the demands that are required from a modern criminal sentence. He thinks that a 25-year sentence has none of the main faults that a life sentence does, and has some of its solitary merits (first of all, isolationalism). A life sentence, as an exceptional one, needs, however: a) establishing special penal institutions with medical and psychological care, b) introduction of the judiciary's ability to decide on the soundness and shortening of the sentence, its recess or bail, and in the case of acquitall after serving the whole sentence, placing the person in a preventative institution (eg in specialized educational and medical institutions at various stages of isolation).