Was it necessary to shoot Chikatilo?

The most terrible and disgusting criminal also has the right to life. Or not?

The publishing house of Alpin Non-Fikshn published a book by the famous historian and publicist Tamara Eidelman “The right to life. The history of the death penalty ” - about how and for what they executed and executed in different countries of the world, and about the arguments“ for ”and against” the legalized deprivation of a person of life.

A dense 400-page text contained a lot of stories about crimes and trials from antiquity to the present with a special accent on the recent past: the chapter “ The price of life in the twentieth century” compares the most bloodthirsty regimes of the century, which executed the right and left-from Bolshevik Russia to Cambodia “Red Khmer”.

In search of an answer to the question of whether the state is entitled, even in the name of the highest, good goals, to take life from a person, the author turns to the case of one of the most terrible and disgusting criminals in world history: with the kind permission of the publisher, we publish a fragment of the head of “Casus Chikatilo” .

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