FROM THE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT TO RESPECTING THE RIGHTS OF THE CONVICT. A FEW ASPECTS REGARDING THE EVOLUTION OF THE ROMANIAN PENALTY SYSTEM

From the application of the most drastic punishments for crimes whose naturewas meant to produce a prejudice to the physical and mental integrity of a person orwho aimed at its patrimony and until the current period, where no question of theapplication of a capital punishment, at least as far as the Romanian State is concerned,the romanian sanctioning system has undergone numerous modifications aimedprimarily at sanctioning the facts stipulated by the criminal law that have beencommitted with guilt, this sanctioning beeing applied in compliance with the rights ofthe convicted person. The present work aims to make a general overview of theevolution of the Romanian sanctioning system, from the daco-roman period and untiltoday, the presentation of facts that are no longer criminally incriminated in the currentcriminal legislation and last but not least a comparative analysis at international level.