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| |  | | Adolf Eichmann | | | context : | Nazi Germany  | | judgement place : | Israel | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Condemned to death and executed by hanging on 31 May 1962 | | position : | High-ranking officer in the Nazi regime |
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| | | | In the Eichmann trial, 15 years after the Nuremberg trials, the question as to whether a court could judge crimes committed before the legislation criminalising them was adopted, was discussed again. In the appeal judgement, the Supreme Court stated that, not only did the ban on retroactivity not amount to a general principle of international law, but it was even unjust where particularly grave crimes were concerned, such as those Eichmann was accused of.
In the same judgment, the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a state was justified by the characters of the crimes in question. Based on the international legislation in force and on current doctrine, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the principle of universal jurisdiction for international crimes.
The court avoided discussion of the conditions of Eichmann’s arrest. The rights of the accused as an individual were not considered relevant as the question was one to be dealt with on inter-state level.
To sum up, the arrest by the Mossad in Argentina as well as the trial in Israel were justified by the nature of the crimes Adolf Eichmann was accused of, regardless of where they were committed, when they were committed and where the arrest was carried out. | |     click for more... | |  |  | | nationality : | | | Austria | | | date of birth : | | | 19.03.1906 | | | period of charges : | | | 03.1938 - 05.1945 | | | judgement period : | | | 11.04.1961 - 29.05.1962 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Genocide
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 08.01.2010 |
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