Formulative Policy on Death Penalty as a Form of Criminal Sanctions under the Perspective of Human Rights Protection in Indonesian Framework

The death penalty is one type of criminal sanctions that continues to be applied in the practice of Indonesian criminal law as a form of responsibility taken by criminal offenders. Along with the idea of human rights protection that is growing globally today, the idea nationally turns out to influence the development of the country's laws. Based on the dynamic conditions of Indonesian society today, it is in fact the death penalty is still considered essential in the fight against crime. However, related to the idea of human rights protection, the death penalty has in fact pushed into a problem of its own when it comes to the enforcement. The issue of human rights violations, especially the right to live, has long been raised related to the issue of the death penalty. Thus, the death penalty needs to be explored under the academic framework in order to find and reconstruct every single substance associated with it to find its real value for the development of law in the future.