Issues of life imprisonment

Problematika trestu odnětí svobody na doživotí Disertační práce Mgr. Jana Tůmová Katedra trestního práva PF UK Strana 263 Synopsis The theme of this dissertation work is the issue of one of the exceptional punishments, namely that of life imprisonment, which following the abolition of capital punishment as the absolute punishment can be considered at the present time to constitute the strictest punishment which national courts may impose upon the establishment of guilt for the most serious criminal offences. This represents a continuously discussed theme, since this punishment in its purest form is the definitive punishment. The work focuses on the punishment of lifetime imprisonment as a whole, whilst the individual chapters link to one another logically and chronologically from the perspective of the time sequence of the criminal proceedings, including the executive proceedings. The first chapter deals with a definition of punishment as such and its purpose from the perspective of criminal law (Act no. 140/1961 Coll.). The second chapter addresses the situation of the punishment of life imprisonment within the system of punishments, its relation to the death penalty, in which part of the chapter is devoted to capital punishment from both a domestic and foreign perspective, including a history of the legal..