Right to life and its guarantees through the norms of the New Romanian Criminal Code (2014)
Right to life and its guarantees through the norms of the New Romanian Criminal Code (2014)

Summary/Abstract: The new Criminal Code which came into force on February 1, 2014 includes new provisions that constitute a guarantee of protection accorded to the right to life by the rules of criminal law. Thereby the criminalization of a new crime called murder on the victim's request means, on one hand, from the legislator’s optical point of view, the express provision of criminal sanctions euthanasia and, on the other hand, a distinct and attenuated sanction regime for these facts, which has its justification in the repeated, persistent and conscious request of the victim but also the mercy and compassion that led the offender to surrender to the request of the victim. New regulations are found in the matters of criminalization, determination or facilitation of the suicide, this regarding the delimitation and differential sanctioning of acts committed on minors or persons with diminished judgment.

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