| Descript |
xviii, 314 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
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Law, justice and power
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| Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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EAS: YW |
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Introduction / Roger Hood -- 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 Peoples' Rights / Lilian Chenwi -- Challenging the death penalty in the Caribbean: litigation at the privy council / Quincy Whitaker -- Constraining America's death penalty : the Eighth Amendment and excessive punishment / Julian Killingley -- Walking the Eighth 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 -- 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 |
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Capital punishment
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Life imprisonment
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| Alt Author |
Yorke, Jon
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