Assessing Iran's Legislative and Judicial Criminal Policy in Criminal Prevention of Drug-related Crimes with Emphasis on Death Penalty

The policy of the Iranian legislature to prevent drug crimes has always been based on criminal and repressive prevention, so that in determining the punishments according to the social ugliness of the act, personality of the perpetrator, human dignity, type of crime and human rights standards. Punishment is not taken into account; At the same time, the death penalty in practice has not prevented drug crimes. Therefore, the present study was conducted to evaluate Iran's legislative and judicial criminal policy in criminal prevention of drug crimes with emphasis on the death penalty.

The present study is applied in terms of purpose and has used a descriptive-analytical methodology. The contents were collected using library resources.

The present study, with a critical look at the legislative and judicial criminal policy of Iran and other countries, concluded that the legislative criminal prevention policy in recent years in terms of deviation from proportion and moderation, has not been successful in practice and even undermines the legitimacy of punishment. Has been executed. Although the legislature took effective steps to reduce these harms in the 2017 amendment to Article 45, it seems necessary to reconsider the remaining issues of the death penalty and to seek appropriate alternatives.