PROBLEMATIKA PIDANA HUKUMAN MATI DALAM PERSPEKTIF SISTEM PEMASYARAKATAN

Indonesia, which is trying to reorganize in the field of criminal law reform, cannot be separated from the issue of the death penalty. Of course this will have an impact on the context of the formation of the new Criminal Code (KUHP) made by the Indonesian people themselves which have long been aspired to. In addition, the increasing number of death penalty sentences handed down against criminals makes the author interested in studying the existence of capital punishment sanctions, especially in the aspect of human rights and also in the perspective of the correctional system. This is because the death penalty has conflicting values and concepts in the Constitution and the Indonesian Correctional System. In this study, the researcher conducted a normative analysis which resulted in the conclusion that convicts on death row would be able to carry out the coaching program without coercion.

Correctional Institution’s Construction In The Death-Convicted Supervision

The death row inmate becomes one of the members of the Correctional Institution or Lembaga Pemasyarakatan (Lapas) when the convict is waiting for the execution time or if the convict is still making a legal effort. This raises problems from the aspect of the rules, which form the basis of prisons' authority in the guidance of death row inmates because the provisions on the development of capital punishment do not have specific regulations. The problem in this research is the urgency of guiding death convicts in prison; how it is implemented, and is there any difference in the guidance for death row inmates in prison; construction or ideal model of guidance for death row inmates in prison; as a result of the law, guidance on death row inmates is carried out in Lapas. This study uses a normative and empirical juridical approach with data collection methods using literature and field studies. The study results show that the prison's guidance is essential considering that the person concerned will be executed, so assistance and supervision are needed to prevent unwanted things, for example, committing a crime, suicide, or experiencing depression. Death row convicts follow other prisoners' proper guidance, provide useful activities to death convicts, and provide the death convicts with the rights. The superior construction for the development of capital punishment is contained in the Criminal Code Draft or Rancangan Kitab Undang-Undang Hukum Pidana (RKUHP), which makes capital punishment an alternative punishment, provides a probation period of 10 years for the death row inmates, the superior construction of both the place and the material for its guidance must be distinguished from those sentenced to other types of crimes. As a result of the law, there is no certainty of guidance for death row inmates in prison because there are no specific regulations regarding death penalty services.

We Need New Names : A Dirge on Evil

The present article seeks to validate Bulawayo's We Need New Names as a credible alternative to the official national historiography. It attempts to achieve this feat by obtaining answers to two key questions. The first is whether Bulawayo is fair to indict everyone (even perceived victims) for the general malaise that bedevils her nameless dystopian republic. The second question seeks insights on whether the novelist's sex guarantees women some exemption from the finger pointing that Darling otherwise executes with the candor of a death-row judge, albeit in her naive gravity-defying buoyancy. In search for answers to these questions, the researchers first analyze the portrayal of white people in Bulawayo’s unnamed postcolonial state. It then juxtaposes the presentation of the post-independence rulers of the fictional state with that of the suffering masses with the intention to justify, or otherwise, why both perceived victims and culprits are held culpable to the malaise that obtains. Finally, the research examines how women in Africa (and of Africa) are juxtaposed to women in the west. This last part encapsulates problematizing the brand of Darling’s cosmopolitanism as a possible commentary on both the home she abandons and the one she adopts. Since the underlying objective of the study is to test Bulawayo’s We Need New Names as a credible alternative to the metanarrative, parallels are drawn between events and narratives in Bulawayo’s nameless republic and those in the milieu from which her text emerges in its trans-continental settings.

Death Row Narratives: A Qualitative Analysis of Mental Health Issues Found In Death Row Inmate Blog Entries

Death row inmate narratives, culled from online blogs, are used to explore the social determinants of mental health in the context of the stresses and deprivations of living on death row. Legal and correctional procedures that affect death row inmates are conceptualized as social determinants of mental health. These procedures include the granting or denying of stays of execution, conditions of solitary confinement during death row and the death watch, and impending dates of execution. Death row narratives offer a nuanced account of the many ways condemned prisoners must contend with their powerlessness as an essential element of life under sentence of death.

In Defense of the Harvest

What rights should prisoners on death row have to their body, or to their organs? In this work of philosophical short fiction, the narrator tells the story of his own family that lead to the law that allowed organs to be harvested from criminals (both living and after being put to death) to save the lives of the most needy. In the story, the narrator and his family have two children, the older Rupert, and the far younger Sadie. Rupert returns to live with the family and continues to show strong violent tendencies. He threatens to hurt the family and there is a plan to ask him to move out. Rupert overhears the plans, goes into a rage, and cuts out Sadie’s eyes with a knife. Later, under the new law, Sadie is provided a new set of eyes from a criminal; likely Rupert.

Amnesty International dan Penghapusan Hukuman Mati di Malaysia

Malaysia is a country where the death penalty is still present and frequently practiced. It is due to different understandings of the death penalty itself. The absence of the Malaysian government in various international human rights treaties also increases unfair trials on death row inmates. The high number of death row inmates in Malaysia represents a severe human rights violation. The abolition of the death penalty is one of the current global human rights agendas. It goes against the right to live regulated by various international human rights instruments, such as the ICCPR (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights) and the Declaration of Human Rights. One of the INGOs actively advocating the abolition of the death penalty in Malaysia is Amnesty International. This study looks at Amnesty International’s transnational advocacy tactics in encouraging the death penalty abolition in Malaysia from 2015 to 2018. The method used is descriptive research by collecting primary and secondary data and using transnational advocacy networks by Keck and Sikkink. The results of this research show that the efforts used by Amnesty International in this advocacy include information politics, symbolic politics, leverage politics, and accountability politics.