Lawyer Novikov: "People want the death penalty, but they do not think that it will come to them"

“There are several layers here. Who is Dmitry Rogozin? Dmitry Rogozin is a chatterbox, nonsense. Rogozin is a person in whom Roskosmos slipped into some kind of fierce de **** and from his achievements remained Gagarin of 1961, and from the achievements of recent times there is nothing comparable. Against the background of Elon Musk.

And I would not start a serious conversation about whether the death penalty is needed or not with what a person with such a biography thinks about it.

There is a story that I think Plutarch described about Ancient Sparta, when there was some kind of military meeting and everyone was discussing what to do, and some man with a bad reputation stood up and said, let's do this and that. something, it really was a good idea, but the Spartans said that it would be bad if a good idea comes from a bad person, so come on, you sit down, but you, good person, stand up and repeat what he just said ... And in the end, the proposal was accepted the same, but only it came from another person, who, apparently, was considered a more correct, good friend, spotless.

Therefore, let's have a serious conversation about the death penalty - and the death penalty is a serious issue, this is not a topic for conversation for dominoes, in the yard - do not start with what Dmitry Rogozin thinks about this.

Now the second part: what do the population think?

The population, as always, wants Stalin for the neighbor and does not think that Stalin can "come" for you, that the neighbor can be the first to write a denunciation against you. It does not occur to people who think something good about the death penalty.

I decided this question for myself in my second year at the institute: (no) any big advantages that would outweigh the colossal evil and the corrupting influence that the death penalty has on society, and on executioners, and on judges, and on lawyers ...

What is it for a lawyer to defend a person who is then shot? How is it in general?

If I had such a life dilemma, I might not have been able to stay in this profession, in which I remain, even realizing that much of what we do is useless under current conditions and does not lead to results.

But when you think that a person is innocent, you know that he is innocent, but before your eyes they take him away and put him against the wall or put him on a guillotine, what is that?

No pluses, no dividends, except (moral satisfaction) of Svetlakov's character, who sits in a T-shirt in front of the TV and sees a report that corrupt officials were shot today at the Butovo training ground, our live broadcast from the scene - that's (there is nothing), except moral satisfaction of such a man in a stretched T-shirt, from the fact that "these thieves, they were shot, so they need it."

If you consider this a sufficient bonus from the fact that your society is sliding two or three steps down the ladder, well, okay, I do not consider this a sufficient bonus.

I believe that the death penalty is not justified by anything, and there is nothing good about it. "

You can watch the entire program with the participation of Ilya Novikovhere .