Отмена смертной казни в юридическом дискурсе позднеимперской России

Российский юридический журнал. 2024. № 1(154). С. 177–190.

Tumanova A. S., Мамцев Р. В.

During the First Russian Revolution, a movement for the abolition of the death penalty was born and actively developed in the public environment. Its ideologists were prominent Russian lawyers. On the one hand, it was formed in the context of the tightening of the repressive policy of the state and the increase in the growing number of death sentences imposed by military field and military district courts, and on the other, it was an important part of the constitutional project of the beginning of the last century. The protest against capital punishment expressed by representatives of the legal community was reflected on the pages of the legal press and in collective collections of articles, at congresses of Russian criminologists and during parliamentary discussions. The judgments expressed by domestic lawyers in the discussion of this problem were characterised by a high level of argumentation. The arguments given by jurists allow to judge about the state of legal thought and legal awareness of Russian society, to look at the constitutional process of the early XX century from a new angle.

Keywords: история юридической профессии, история общественного движения, история смертной казни

Publication based on the results of: Government and Society in Modern Russia: politics, interaction and cooperation (2024)