Criminal Offense Against Life Theoretical and Practical Aspects

Abstract

Criminal offenses against life represent the archetype of criminal offenses which have historically been characterized by the most highest punishment measures. The existence of legal norms which aim to protect life, in another view, oppose the "homo homini lupus" postulate. The reason why legislators, including the Albanians one, give special legal protection to life, focus in the fact that all other rights are its derivatives, in the absence of which they lose to act. However, despite the principle that "it is forbidden to kill" except in cases where there are justifying reasons (necessary protection, extreme need, exercing of a legal duty), the Albanian legislator, through the incriminating norms, has provided specific figures of criminal offenses which the group object of have the same, but due to the special relationship they aim to protect, they are categorized into special forms or special figures of criminal offenses.