BRAZIL LAW

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 242, 9 July 1938, Page 10 (Supplement)

BRAZIL LAW

Capital Offences

Acting less than a week after an abortive Fascist revolt of May 11, President Vargas' issued a 10-poirt decree providing the capital penalty In Brazil for varied offences against the State, including attempts “to change the political or social order” with the “aid or subsidy of a foreign power.” In the future, the President decreed, the capital penalty will be applicable in the following eases:—

1. Attempts to submit the national territory or parts thereof to the sovereignty of a foreign state. . 2. Attempts with the aid or subsidy of a foreign power to erga-nise opposition against the unity of Brazil. 3. Attempts to dismember Brazil by means of an armed movement which has to be suppressed by warlike measures.

4. Attempts with the aid or subsidy of a foreign power or organisation of international character to change the political or social order of Brazil. 5. Attempts to establish a dictatorship of one social class.

6. An armed irsurrection, which can be considered to exist on the mere discovery of nn arms deposit. 7. Practice of acts intended to provoke civil war if war results from them.

R. Attempts against the security of the State, such as wreckings, incendiarism, and terrorism. 9. Attempts against the life or Ilt>ert.v o.f rhe President. 10. Homicide committed ferociously or pointlessly.