TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yorke,Jon
TI  - Against the death penalty: international initiatives and implications 
T2  - Law, justice, and power
SN  - 9780754674139
AV  - K5104  .A94 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Farnham, England, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Capital punishment
KW  - Life imprisonment
KW  - Peine de mort
KW  - Réclusion à perpétuité
N1  - 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
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0821/2008026235.html
ER  -