Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Deterrent Effect: From An a priori Logic

Chapter 3 Capital Punishment as an Inhumane Punishment

Chapter 4 Necessity or Lack of Need for Capital Punishment

Chapter 5 Miscarriage of Justice

Chapter 6 The Goal of Punishment

Chapter 7 Economic Considerations

Chapter 8 Other Reasons for and Against Capital Punishment

Chapter 9 Statutory Regulation of Capital Punishment in Hungary during the Horthy Era and World War II

Chapter 10 The Death Penalty in the Years after Liberation from Nazi Occupation and During the Establishment of the Soviet Dictatorship

Chapter 11 Capital Punishment in the First Decade of State Socialism

Chapter 13 The Act No. IV of 1978 on the Criminal Code of Hungary

Chapter 14 The End Time of the Death Penalty in Hungary: Two Steps of the Abolition in 1989/90

Chapter 15 Public Opinion in Hungary in the Light of the Current Legal Situation and the Facts about Trends in Murder Rates

Chapter 16 Revived Debate on the Death Penalty in the Political Scene