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Zoltan J. Toth is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Karoli Gaspar University of the Hungarian Reformed Church, Budapest, Hungary.
Part I: Death penalty debates in the 20th and 21st century: pros and cons 3
Chapter I: Introduction 4
Chapter II: The deterrent effect - from an a priori logic 8
Chapter III: Capital punishment as an inhumane punishment 11
Chapter IV: Necessity or lack of need for capital punishment 20
Chapter V: Miscarriage of justice 27
Chapter VI: The goal of punishment 38
Chapter VII: Economic considerations 42
Chapter VIII: Other reasons for and against capital punishment 47
Part II: A case study of capital punishment in Hungary in the 20th century 58
Chapter IX: Statutory Regulation of Capital Punishment in Hungary during the Horthy Era and World War II. 62
Chapter X: The death penalty in the years after liberation from Nazi occupation and during the establishment of the Soviet dictatorship 71
Chapter XI: Capital punishment in the first decade of state socialism 86
Chapter XII: Capital Punishment in the 60's and 70's 95
Chapter XIII: The Act no. IV of 1978 on the Criminal Code of Hungary 106
Chapter XIV: The end time of the death penalty in Hungary: Two steps of the abolition in 1989/90 117
Part III: The politicization of capital punishment in Hungary: renewed controversy 124
Chapter XV: Public opinion in Hungary in the light of the current legal situation and the facts about trends in murder rates 125
Chapter XVI: Revived debate on the death penalty in the political scene 135
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