La legitimidad de la prisión permanente revisable a la vista del estándar europeo y nacional

Abstract

The paper raises the question of whether the regulation of reviewable life imprisonment in Spain is compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights and the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. For this purpose, it analyses the standard that the jurisprudence of the ECHR has set for life imprisonment. The criteria established by the Constitutional Court for the system of penalties are also studied, which is relevant to the non-regression clause established in article 53 of the Convention.