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Against the Death Penalty: International Initiatives and Implications
Contributor(s): Yorke, Jon (Editor)
ISBN: 1138260045     ISBN-13: 9781138260047
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $63.64  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Law | Criminal Law - General
- Law | International
Dewey: 345.077
Series: Law, Justice and Power
Physical Information: 334 pages
 
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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. The contributors consider the current developments within the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the African Commission and the Commonwealth Caribbean, and engage with the emergence of regional norms promoting collective restriction and renunciation of the punishment. They investigate perspectives and questions for retentionist countries, focusing on the United States, China, Korea and Taiwan, and reveal the iniquities of contemporary capital judicial systems. Emphasis is placed on the issues of transparency of municipal jurisdictions, the jurisprudence on the 'death row phenomenon' and the changing nature of public opinion. The volume surveys and critiques the arguments used to scrutinize the death penalty to then offer a detailed analysis of possible replacement sanctions.