 The German Federal Court of Justice in 1995 has argued that "concerns" ("Bedenken") related to the general nature of the death penalty "suggest" ("legen den Befund nahe") that capital punishment should indeed be considered inadmissible already as a consequence of the guarantee of human dignity in article 1 GG.The Penal Code was formally amended in 1951 to conform to the abolition.Previous death sentences were replaced by life imprisonment.