Pedeapsa cu moartea. Privilegiu pentru unii. Supliciu pentru alții
Death Punishment. Privilege for Some, Torture for Others

Summary/Abstract: The right of life is the most representative attribute of human being, is absolute and immutable, that identifies human in the entire ecosystem where he lives as a creator of civilization and culture. The issue of capital punishment (re)brings to light in an allusive/metaphorical way the epic of the ”evil from the box”. No matter how many times it will be closed with the lock of evidence provided by transparent facts and statistics, it will always break through, nourished by traditions and customs which are generated by an unconscious and irrational belief. Thus, we ask ourselves the recurring question whether the death penalty really belongs to an irreversibly assumed past or, it is changed imperceptibly into the uncertain present and into a dark future. The present research aims to bring into discussion, in various aspects the capital punishment and how has been approached by great intellectuals of the world and, starting from them, how was reverberated in the Romanian space, that abolished it, in the 19th century, which ensured Romania a flourishing place in the world. The reactivation in the collective memory of this controversial punitive element rises in the human’s mind various questions meant to search the answers that are indispensable in a future when life is perceived beyond its biological connotations, as the highest goal of humanity.

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