Talk:Capital punishment in Germany

Origin of German prohibition of capital punishment
This would seem to be relevant to this article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/03/AR2005060301450.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.244.76.39 (talk) 22:02, 26 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Might be relevant, but seems a minority view. Pity there aren't more sources. Not sure how encyclopedic an editorial piece in a newspaper is, especially given that it doesn't site sources itself. Might be best to reword its inclusion some how. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.240.207.146 (talk) 23:53, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
 * it's an editorial piece (opinion piece) - that should be made clear - since editorial pieces are not to be interpreted as factual display — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.42.254.110 (talk) 14:54, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Expand it, please
I think this article badly need to be expanded. There is nothing here about capital punishment in the Weimar Republic and German Empire. As well as about the methods of executions. Some sources claimed that in Berlin until 1936-1938 beheading with a hand axe was the sole method Darth Kalwejt (talk) 23:04, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Re-write needed for many parts
There are many parts of the article that appear to have been written by a native german speaker, and the language is a little odd and ambiguous in places. It's better than nothing, but would be great if someone with understanding of the issues could rewrite these sections to make them clearer, and flow better. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.240.207.146 (talk) 23:55, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

How frequently was the death penalty applied in the Hohenzollern empire?
The article states that the death penalty was applied "liberally", but the author gave no stats to back that up, and the footnote only clarifies who the sovereign was. Can anyone cite any statistics to justify the description? "Liberally" would tend to imply "frequently", in this context.

By the way, I agree with another comment that this piece sounds like it was written by a native speaker of German, and translated into English.

Best regards TheBaron0530 (talk) 20:40, 27 June 2016 (UTC)theBaron0530

Western method after Second World War
The article discusses executions in the West between the end of the war and 1951. What method was used during this period? A source is cited for the relevant paragraph but it's an offline book I don't have access to. Wyddgrug (talk) 10:39, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Public attitudes
Is there any polling data, historical (e.g. from around the time of abolition) or current, about public attitudes towards the death penalty in Germany? If anyone knows of any this would be useful to include in the article. Wyddgrug (talk) 10:39, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Special gravity of guilt ≠ life without parole
A court may rule additionally to the sentence that the crime constitutes a special gravity of guilt. This itself is not a prison sentence, but a criteria to be able to order the offender to "anschließender Sicherungsverwahrung" (subsequent preventive detention). There is a difference between Freiheitsstrafe (imprisonment) and Sicherungsverwahrung. While imprisonment is a punishment, 'Sicherungsverwahrung' is not, it's a preventive detention of the offender after he/she served his/her sentence. There is no such thing as life imprisonment without the possibility for parole in Germany. Every lifer must have the realistic chance to get their freedom back as ruled by the Germand federal constitution court. Saying 'Sicherungsverwahrung' is life without parole is factual wrong. -88.76.15.93 (talk) 17:15, 19 April 2019 (UTC)