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8. The Right to Life

Bernadette Rainey, Elizabeth Wicks, Andclare Ovey

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This chapter examines the case-law of the Strasbourg Court related to the right to life. This includes cases concerning the death penalty and the extraterritorial application of the right to life, the prohibition of intentional killing by the State, positive obligations to protect life, the duty to investigate deaths, the rights of the unborn child, and euthanasia. The chapter suggests that the body of judgments concerning the right to life has become one of the richest and most dynamic of all the Convention case-law.

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This chapter examines the case-law of the Strasbourg Court related to the right to life. This includes cases concerning the death penalty and the extraterritorial application of the right to life, the prohibition of intentional killing by the State, positive obligations to protect life, the duty to investigate deaths, the rights of the unborn child, and euthanasia. The chapter suggests that the body of judgments concerning the right to life has become one of the richest and most dynamic of all the Convention case-law.

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This chapter examines the case-law of the Strasbourg Court related to the right to life. This includes cases concerning the death penalty and the extraterritorial application of the right to life, the prohibition of intentional killing by the State, positive obligations to protect life, the duty to investigate deaths, the rights of the unborn child, and euthanasia. The chapter suggests that the body of judgments concerning the right to life has become one of the richest and most dynamic of all the Convention case-law.

Key concepts: Right to life, Duty, Law, Convention, State (computer science), Political science, Human rights, Computer science

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