EKSISTENSI PIDANA MATI DALAM SISTEM HUKUM INDONESIA

Indonesia, which is being held in the area of criminal law reform, can’t be separated from the issue of the death penalty. Of course this will take some effects in the context of the new Criminal Code (KUHP) formation that made by Indonesian people themselves who have long aspired. In addition, the increasing number of death penalty verdict handed down against criminals make the author is interested to assess the existence of death penalty sanctions, why the death penalty is still listed in the criminal code and also in the outside, even in the draft of Criminal Code. Based on normative legal research to many literatures, include the Criminal Code, the outside of the Criminal Code and also the draft of Criminal Code, that analyzed qualitatively, it can be conclude that Indonesian government through the law political support the death penalty