De levenslange gevangenisstraf: geen evident mensenrechtelijk alternatief voor de doodstraf Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Today life imprisonment is increasingly tested against human right standards. The importance of a perspective on release is being stressed out as the main condition for the humanity of this sentence, not only in the juridical literature but also by the European Court of Human Rights. The European Court states that the life sentence should be de jure and de facto reducible for it not to be in conflict with Article 3 of the European Convention on ...