The abolition of the death penalty is a matter of meaning and sensitivity. It is meaningful because it derives from what we have learned: the death penalty does not serve a better general prevention of blood crimes; It is a pity that excludes the resocializing function, which is the only legitimation of punishments; The judicial error is more frequent than it is believed, as noted when DNA test analysis could be initiated and the error is irreversible.
It is also a matter of sensitivity, since capital execution almost always occurs cruel and inhuman.
By sense and sensitivity the interpretation of articles six and seven of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights claims that the proscription of the death penalty is considered a requirement of Ius Cogens.
International abolition of the Death Penalty: a question of meaning and sensitivity
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