Aparna Jha

Demons and Demigods

Death Penalty in India

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book is a personal narrative of the author on the death penalty. The author in this work recounts herexperience, as a lawyer, of arguing a death penalty case. The book also critically examines the leadingdeath penalty cases that have developed the law on the capital punishment in India, and quotes theleading jurists on the subject.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780199489633
• ISBN-10: 0199489637
• Artikelnr.: 53685396

Autorenporträt

Aparna Jha is a lawyer practicising in the Supreme Court of India.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Case of the Four Boys
2. Bachan Singh
3. Machchi Singh
4. Swamy Shraddananda
5. Dhananjoy Chatterjee
6. The Mumbai Bomb Blasts
7. Law is Not Mathematics
8. Bodies on the Hillock
9. Guns, Knives, and Swords
10. At the Supreme Court
11. Burning the Midnight Oil
12. Finding Flaws and Loopholes
13. No Eyewitnesses, My Lords!
14. The Star Witnesses
15. Other Witnesses
16. Skulls and Bones
17. The Final Lap
18. The Final Lap II
19. The Judgment
20. Afterwards
22. The Abolition of the Death Penalty: Global Perspectives
23. Death Penalty Creates No Deterrence: Hard Facts
24. Food for Thought