Against the Death Penalty

International Initiatives and Implications
Herausgeber: Yorke, Jon

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Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume brings together leading scholars on the death penalty within international, regional and municipal law. It considers the intrinsic elements of both the promotion and demise of the punishment around the world, and provides analysis which contributes to the evolving abolitionist discourse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781138260047
• ISBN-10: 1138260045
• Artikelnr.: 57039735

Autorenporträt

Jon Yorke, Senior Lecturer in Law, BCU School of Law, Birmingham City University, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Introduction, Roger Hood; Part I Regional Conspectus and
Analysis: The United Nations and abolition of the death penalty, William A.
Schabas; The evolving human rights discourse of the Council of Europe:
renouncing the sovereign right of the death penalty, Jon Yorke; Taking the
death penalty debate further: the African Commission on Human and People's
Rights, Lilian Chenwi; Challenging the death penalty in the Caribbean:
litigation at the Privy Council, Quincy Whitaker. Part II Perspectives and
Questions for Retentionist Countries: Constraining America's death penalty:
the 8th Amendment and excessive punishment, Julian Killingley; Walking the
8th Amendment tightrope: 'time served' in the United States Supreme Court,
Jane Marriott; A crisis of confidence: Americans' doubts about the death
penalty, Richard C. Dieter; The death penalty in China: towards the rule of
law, Nicola Macbean; The abolitionist movement in death penalty-friendly
Asia: the cases of South Korea and Taiwan, Sangmin Bae. Part III Overview
of Abolition Strategies and Alternatives to the Death Penalty: Capital
punishment: a review and critique of abolition strategies, Peter
Hodgkinson, Seema Kandelia and Lina Gyllensten; A fate worse than death?
The problems with life imprisonment as an alternative to the death penalty,
Rachael Stokes; Index.