The nature and humanity of life imprisonment are considered in the scientific sense. The article clarifies the concept of life imprisonment in accordance with the available legal and scientific sources, which have a conceptual nature: “Life imprisonment is the most severe measure of coercion of the main types of punishment, which according to Art.
The current criminal law has substantially improved the basic provisions of the institute of appoi
ntment of punishment. In particular, for the first time, the rule stipulating that a court is offered to choo
se a more severe type of punishment from the number of penalties provided for in the relevant part of th
e Criminal Code of Ukraine only if less severe punishment isn’t able to achieve the statutory purposes of
punishment. Said regulations must b followed in the appointment of such a form of criminal
The article deals with certain aspects of the protection of the right to life in the context of
contemporary risks. In particular, the use of the death penalty, artificial termination of
pregnancy (abortion), which is relevant to issues of morality, religion and medicine, the use of
euthanasia as a deprivation of life, the deprivation of life resulting from the absolutely
necessary use of force on the basis were studied of the analysis of domestic and foreign
experience.
The refuse of legislators is considered practically all modern states from the skilled forms of death punishment, diminish in gofamount of crimes, which it can be applied for, the proper generalization sared one in relation to a waiver Ukraine of application of institute of death punishment in a domesticlegislation.