Kosmik Hukum
Vol 23, No 3 (2023)

Death Penalty and Right to Life: A Comparison between International Bill of Human Rights and Islam

Mahdi Muhammad (Faculty of Law, Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto)
Kem Nori Alfath (Schoolf of Law, University of Leeds)
Yusuf Saefudin (Faculty of Law, Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto)



Article Info

Publish Date
15 Aug 2023

Abstract

In human history, the death penalty is not a brand-new form of punishment. In early civilizations, it was known and widely used throughout the world. It was legalized in Codex Hammurabi. Contrary to its long history, the view changed radically after World War II. The abolition of it began to be propagated during the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) formulation in 1948 due to respect for the right to life. Islam adheres to the fundamental principle that everyone has the right to life, but that does not mean there is no death penalty in Islam. In this research, the problem to be solved is whether the death penalty regulation, according to the International Bill of Human Rights and Islam, has accommodated the right to life. The purpose of it is to find out and analyze which death penalty regulatory regime is more accommodating to the right to life. This type of research is normative juridical research using secondary data consisting of primary and secondary legal materials. The approaches used are statute and comparative approaches. This research shows that the right to life is thoroughly accommodated in the Islamic death penalty regulation, while the abolition of it under the mandate of the International Bill of Human Rights, especially the Second Protocol to International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, only accommodates the perpetrator right to life of the perpetrator by ignoring many people right who could potentially be taken away if they are not sentenced to death.Keywords: right to life, death penalty, Islam.

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KOSMIK

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Subject

Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice Social Sciences

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Kosmik Hukum adalah jurnal peer reviewed dan Open-Acces yang diterbitkan oleh Fakultas Hukum Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto. Kosmik Hukum mengundang para peneliti, dosen, dan praktisi di seluruh dunia untuk bertukar dan memajukan keilmuan di bidang hukum yang meliputi berbagai aspek hukum ...