Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these developments in the humanisation of punishment in chronological order.
- Reviewable permanent imprisonment is introduced into the Criminal Code, 2015
- The United Nations Convention against Torture is adopted, 1984
- The Spanish Constitution abolishes the death penalty, 1978
- The remaining wartime military exception to the abolition is removed by organic law, 1995
- Protocol 13 to the European Convention abolishes the death penalty in all circumstances, 2002
Hints
- The Spanish entries are the first, third and fifth.
- The European protocol closing the wartime exception comes after the Spanish organic law that did the same domestically.
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- The Spanish Constitution abolishes the death penalty, 1978
- The United Nations Convention against Torture is adopted, 1984
- The remaining wartime military exception to the abolition is removed by organic law, 1995
- Protocol 13 to the European Convention abolishes the death penalty in all circumstances, 2002
- Reviewable permanent imprisonment is introduced into the Criminal Code, 2015
Why
The last entry cuts against the direction of the other four, which is why it is included. A sequence of humanising steps is not a law of history; it is a set of political decisions, and the most recent Spanish decision in this area moved the other way and remains contested.
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