Death Penalty in the Indonesian National Legal System

Abstract

The death penalty is the most severe type of punishment compared to other crimes, because death penalty takes away human souls to defend their lives. The issue of death penalty in Indonesia is regulated in Article 10 of the Criminal Code, where there are differences of opinion between the pros and cons, because it is contrary to religion and human rights. The purpose of this paper is the existence of death penalty in law enforcement in Indonesia, the existence of death penalty in Indonesia in the context of a state based on law as set forth in Article 1 paragraph (3) of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia, the implementation of death penalty in Indonesia in the framework of law enforcement in order to achieve the goal of the law itself. The research method used is library research. It can be concluded that the death penalty is acceptable to the people of Indonesia and remains there to be defended by the decision of the Constitutional Court.