Word: coding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Process. Though it says nothing about habeas corpus, jury trial, or the presumption that a man is innocent until proved guilty (a concept denounced as "middleclass nonsense" during last week's debate), the new Soviet code lays down that the Soviet citizen may not be punished except for specified crimes and only after what is by Red lights, due process of law. Presumably, that bars the security police from carrying off people, as they carried off millions in Stalin's time," by their own "administrative processes...
...code officially provides that every man may have a public trial, a defense lawyer, and a chance to appeal the verdict. It cuts prison sentences for "ordinary" crimes from 25 to 10 years, and to 15 years for exceptionally severe offenses. It raises the age of criminal responsibility from 14 to 16. It scraps such punishments as exile abroad, recently proposed for Nobel Novelist Boris Pasternak. But capital punishment stays on the books, and repeaters or hardened criminals lose all rights to early parole. Death by shooting continues for treason (including "flight abroad or refusal to return to the U.S.S.R...
...ground that bourgeois and upper-class elements have now vanished from the Soviet scene, the code drops Stalin's old category of "enemy of the people." and the clause authorizing imprisonment or transportation of the relatives of such unfortunates. But the new laws still provide for punishment of any "counterrevolutionary" act, a term broad enough to run the population of Soviet "corrective labor" camps back from their present estimated 1,000,000 to the 10 million...
...variance on the building code which makes special provisions for educational and religious institutions was issued locally, but a group of citizens living in the area protested the award last spring...
These proceeding have been viewed with considerable interest, since the question of variations on the building code will be of vital importance to the University...