Capital punishment : strategies for abolition / edited by Peter Hodgkinson and William A. Schabas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hodgkinson, Peter (Director of the Centre for Capital Punishment Studies), editor.

Schabas, William, 1950- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capital punishment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 374 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What are the critical factors that determine whether a country replaces, retains or restores the death penalty? Why do some countries maintain the death penalty in theory but in reality rarely invoke it? By asking these questions, the editors hope to isolate the core issues that influence the formulation of legislation so that they can be incorporated into strategies for advising governments considering changes to their policy on capital punishment. They also seek to redress the imbalance in research, which tends to focus almost exclusively on the experience of the USA, by covering a range of countries such as South Korea, Lithuania, Japan and the British Caribbean Commonwealth. This valuable contribution to the debates around capital punishment contains contributions from leading academics, campaigners and legal practitioners and will be an important resource for students, academics, NGOs, policy makers, lawyers and jurists.

Contents:

Capital punishment : improve it or remove it / Peter Hodgkinson

International law and the death penalty : reflecting or promoting change / William A. Schabas

Doctors and the death penalty : ethics and a cruel punishment / Robert Ferris, James Welsh

Replacing the death penalty : the vexed issue of alternative sanctions / Andrew Coyle

Religion and the death penalty in the United States : past and present / James J. Megivern

On botched executions / Marian J. Borg, Michael L. Radelet

Death as a penalty in the Shari'ā / M. Cherif Bassiouni

Abolishing the death penalty in the United States : an analysis of institutional obstacles and future prospects / Hugo Adam Bedau

Capital punishment in the United States : moratorium efforts and other key developments / Ronald J. Tabak

The experience of Lithuania's journey to abolition / Aleksandras Dobryninas

The death penalty in South Korea and Japan : Asian values and the debate about capital punishment / Byung-Sun Cho

Georgia, former republic of the USSR : managing abolition / Eric Svanidze

Capital punishment in the Commonwealth Caribbean : colonial inheritance, colonial remedy / Julian B. Knowles

Public opinion and the death penalty / William A. Schabas

Capital punishment : meeting the needs of the families of the homicide victim and the condemned / Peter Hodgkinson.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-14477-9

1-280-45784-8

0-511-18543-X

0-511-18460-3

0-511-18723-8

0-511-31340-3

0-511-48927-7

0-511-18630-4

OCLC:

560108978