Published: 2020-07-30

The Polish Law for the Criminalization of the Planning of Murder

Alicja Gorczowska
Zeszyty Prawnicze
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2020.20.2.06

Abstract

The article discusses key problems associated with the amendment of June 13, 2019 to the Polish Criminal Code and related legislation on the criminalization of plans for murder (Art. 148 §5) and the undertaking of a contract killing (Art. 148a). First the article explains what is meant by “plans for murder” under Polish law. Next it shows why the planning of murder is going unpunished, discussing why it is impossible under Polish law to prove intentionality, and argues that the threat to the legal interest involved is defined too vaguely. It also considers the relationship between the criminalization of making plans for a murder and the institution of regulations in the Polish Criminal Code of a new type of criminal offence, the undertaking of a contract killing. The article reviews both the positive and negative opinions of the doctrine of this institution.

Keywords:

planning a murder; the undertaking of a contract killing; criminalization of planning murder; grounds for criminalization; criminal offences against life; legal interest.

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Gorczowska, A. (2020). The Polish Law for the Criminalization of the Planning of Murder. Zeszyty Prawnicze, 20(2), 101–118. https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2020.20.2.06

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