Abstract:
This scientific work in article stems from this problematic: Is the prescriptibility of the heinous crimes compatible with the national legal system? Therefore, the methodology is exploratory, through a qualitative approach, using several documents, among them national and foreign doctrinal works, academic productions, jurisprudences and national legislation. It is determined that, in heinous crimes, there is a need to overlap the fundamental rights of the victim; as well as the need of appropriate legal treatment, proportional to the seriousness of the offenses relating to limitation and, at last, of non-deficient social protection. From this point of view, it is sustained the imprescriptibility of the heinous crimes in the national legal system, being imperative the legislative modification in that direction.
