000 02513cam a22003614a 4500
001 ocn231948167
003 TZ-ArACH
005 20110628111951.0
008 080612s2008 enka b 001 0 eng
010 _a 2008026235
015 _aGBA899002
_2bnb
016 7 _a014691945
_2Uk
020 _a9780754674139
035 _a(OCoLC)231948167
040 _aDLC
_beng
_cTZ-ArACH
_dUKM
_dYDXCP
_dBAKER
_dBTCTA
_dBWK
_dBWKUK
_dBWX
_dCDX
_dOWT
_dMUQ
_dOCLCQ
049 _aTZAA
050 0 0 _aK5104
_b.A94
245 0 0 _aAgainst the death penalty :
_binternational initiatives and implications /
_cedited by Jon Yorke.
260 _aFarnham, England ;
_aBurlington, VT :
_bAshgate,
_cc2008.
300 _axviii, 314 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
490 1 _aLaw, justice, and power
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction / 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.
650 0 _aCapital punishment.
_91356
650 0 _aLife imprisonment.
_91357
650 6 _aPeine de mort.
_91358
650 6 _aRéclusion à perpétuité
_91359
700 1 _aYorke, Jon.
_91360
830 0 _aLaw, justice, and power.
_91361
856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
_uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0821/2008026235.html
942 _2lcc
_cBOOK
999 _c1223
_d1223