On the question of life imprisonment

The article is devoted to the study of current problems of combating and suppressing grave and especially grave crimes aimed at state integrity and state sovereignty, terrorist and extremist activities. As a result of the study, one of the measures to suppress the abovementioned acts in the present, and possibly in the future, is proposed. The changes that have affected our state, the problems of counteracting and overcoming the obstacles that are on the way, are a primary task, the implementation of which is vitally important for our country and its population. One of the obstacles standing in the way of our state, in our opinion, is the softness or humanity of the highest degree of social protection, namely life imprisonment (hereinafter referred to as LIP).

The death penalty does not frighten those who violate the law. For those sentenced to life imprisonment, a high level of morbidity and conflict is quite typical, and against the background of the specifics of life imprisonment, such convicts can be observed to have no motivation for correction and goals in life. It can be concluded that the possibility of release from places of life imprisonment on parole gives extra hope to those who deviate from the norms of human morality and essence, those acts for which a person is sentenced to life imprisonment cannot be forgiven by either society or the state. Unfortunately, a person with such inclinations not only does not correct himself, but also becomes even more convinced of his inhumane conclusions.

And we have no moral right to give even the slightest chance to these people to be free, since we are responsible not only for ourselves, but for our compatriots and the state as a whole.

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