DEATH PENALTY: European convention of human rights

DEATH PENALTY
WHEN LIFE GENERATES DEATH (LEGALLY)

EUROPEAN CONVENTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

The European convention of human rights, subscribed in 4th November 1950 and come into force on 3rd September 1953, deals with death penalty in the 2nd article:

The right to the life of every people is preserved by the law. Nobody can be intentionally deprived of his life, except in the execution of a death sentence pronounced by a court, in the cases when the crime is punished by the law with this penalty.

As it appears, the disposition, though it affirms the right to the life, approves death penalty.
This trend was changed with the promulgation in 1983 and the coming into force in 1985 of the VI Protocol to the European convention of human rights. It's the first document which provides the abolition of death penalty for crimes in time of peace. The 1st article says:

Death penalty must be abolished. No people must be condemned to this penalty or must undergo an execution.