By perpetual it is understood to one thing that lasts forever, that is, forever . Coming from the Latin word perpetŭus, this term is used to name what is capable of enduring throughout the weather and that lacks end or that remains until the end of the lifetime . For example: "The death of a child is a perpetual pain that you should always live with", "Cheer up! It's just a bad run: there is no perpetual misfortune, soon things will be better for you ”, "In some areas of Russia, it seems that there is a perpetual winter that punishes the population with very low temperatures throughout the year".
It should be noted that perpetuity may be linked to a position that is obtained by heritage or by appointment and that extends until the end of life. That post, therefore, has character life : “I cannot understand how society accepts a perpetual senator: that is not democratic”, "The dictator tried to get impunity from calling himself a perpetual congressman".
The Virgin of Perpetual Help On the other hand, it is an oriental icon that began to be the object of devotion of the Augustinians in Rome when the XV century It came to an end. Your holiday takes place every June 27th . It is also interesting to indicate that this Virgin has long been named as Patroness of the Haitian territory.
Life imprisonment
He perpetual prison , also know as life imprisonment , on the other hand, is a type of conviction that is established against a crime serious. It is the deprivation of liberty for an indefinite period, a period that may involve life imprisonment. Perpetual imprisonment often replaces the death penalty as a more severe punishment. In some cases, those sentences of more than 20 years in prison also fall within this classification, because it is considered too high a period of deprivation of liberty that generates in severe prisoners physical and psychological sequelae.
In the European Union there is a concept known as life imprisonment which refers to the possibility of reviewing the conviction of a prisoner within a certain period of time and, taking into account the attitudes of the convicted person since the time of imprisonment and other circumstances, grant him freedom or not.
This issue arouses endless controversies, given that many people say that it is a good measure to act against crime, without falling into the brutal decision of the capital punishment; However, another sector assures that it is not a constructive measure since it causes irreversible damage to those convicted, preventing them from starting over, even if they were sorry for what they have done. Unfortunately, the life imprisonment reviewable it is not a better alternative solution to the death penalty or the life sentence itself.
It is known that the countries that contemplate among their laws that of the perpetual punishable sentence, have prisoners who serve a sentence that lasts an average of 20 years, however, in other countries such as Spain the average is 40 years, an experience of the which the damned come out absolutely mentally damaged and unable to lead a social life fairly stable
There are different opinions about whether or not constitutional this measure. In the case of Spain, given the results that these convictions cause, it is estimated that it is not due to the fact that Constitution it is explained that all deprivation sentences and freedom must have as their primary objective the social reintegration of the damned, and these people clearly cannot do it after this experience.
