Amendment Hands Servers Of Real Life Sentences Right In Hungary To Clemency Process
- 19 Nov 2014 8:00 AM
Parliament voted through a package of changes to the 2013 criminal code on Tuesday, and among the amendments is a provision for allowing people serving real life sentences the right to plea clemency. The amendments were passed by 125 votes in favour and 54 abstentions, while one voted against the justice minister’s bill.
The new clemency process, in the case of the criminal’s consent, can only apply after at least 40 years of the sentence has been served
The government noted that the change had been necessitated by a European Court of Human Rights verdict in May this year.
Source www.hungarymatters.hu
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