THE LEGAL NATURE OF THE DEATH PENALTY AS A MEASURE OF LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY: TRENDS AND PROSPECTS OF APPLICATION
<br>Legal science is often faced with issues that cause a huge wave of controversy among scientists and politicians. One such topic is the death penalty. The best minds in the world, from Kant to Dostoevsky, have addressed this problem. Moreover, having existed for several centuries, it has not lost its relevance and, in the context of the development and spread of democratic and humanistic values in the global space, the question of its necessity becomes most acute. In this article, we decided to understand what the future holds for this measure of legal responsibility and set out to study various points of view about the nature and appropriateness of the use of the death penalty in order to come to the most objective conclusions. As a result, we have identified a number of trends in the use of the death penalty in the modern world, based on research data from international organizations, scientific works by leading legal experts and speeches by politicians.