Indulto e sistema penal: limites, finalidades e propostas

• Main Author: Ferreira, Ana Lúcia Tavares
• Publication Date: 2011
• Format: Master thesis
• Language: por
• Source: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Download full: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/9625
• topic: Executive pardon power; Law enforcement; Indulto; Execução; Pena; Sistema penal; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::DIREITO::DIREITO PUBLICO::DIREITO PENAL

As a heritage of monarchical prerrogative, the presidential pardon has been restricted, put on statutory basis or even abolished in some modern States. However, it survived centuries of radical political change and is still frequently used by heads of States for many political purposes. Nevertheless, it s necessary to make a distinction between legitimate legal limits and theoretical unjustified restrictions. This work addresses the presidential pardon power, specially the collective pardon, in the modern democratic rule of law States and its relation to basic statements of modern Constitutions. The theme is developed from a constitutional perspective, in order to identify the pardon limits and possibilities in the rule of law State. Although many see the collective pardons as a violation of the institutional separation of powers, this analyse will try to question that interpretation and its consequences, seeking to review the standard model by which executive pardon should be restricted to exceptional and unique situations. The core idea is to point precisely the limits to legitimated use of executive pardon in our criminal system and, based on the answers to those questions, list some situations as guiding models to the future use of collective pardon power.