Hungary’s Kúria Keeps Real Life Sentence In Force
- 3 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
Hungary’s supreme court has decided that the real life sentence without parole can be maintained in Hungary. The Kúria referred to case law considered by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and related Constitutional Court rulings. The ruling Fidesz party welcomed the decision, saying that maintaining the possibility of the real life sentence was a government achievement.
People who commit severe crimes should be kept in prison for the rest of their lives, it added.
Under the Kúria’s decision on June 11, László Magyar, a convicted felon serving a real life sentence for the physical abuse of elderly people, would be eligible for parole in 40 years at the earliest.
Last October the ECHR ruled that Magyar’s sentence constituted a cruel and unusual punishment and that the inmate must be eligible for parole after having served 25 years.
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