Against the death penalty :
Against the death penalty : international initiatives and implications /
edited by Jon Yorke.
- Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008.
- xviii, 314 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Law, justice, and power .
- Law, justice, and power. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780754674139
2008026235
GBA899002 bnb
014691945 Uk
Capital punishment.
Life imprisonment.
Peine de mort.
Réclusion à perpétuité
K5104 / .A94
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780754674139
2008026235
GBA899002 bnb
014691945 Uk
Capital punishment.
Life imprisonment.
Peine de mort.
Réclusion à perpétuité
K5104 / .A94