Against the death penalty: international initiatives and implications
Roger Hood -- The United Nations and abolition of the death penalty / William 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 peo...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Aldershot, Hants. [u.a.]
Ashgate
c2008
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| In: | Year: 2008 |
| Availability in Tübingen: | Present in Tübingen. UB: KB 20 A 3545 |
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| Summary: | Roger Hood -- The United Nations and abolition of the death penalty / William 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 -- 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 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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| Item Description: | Includes index |
| Physical Description: | XVIII, 314 S |
| ISBN: | 9780754674139 |