Last chance for life : Clemency in Southeast Asian death penalty cases / Daniel Pascoe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pascoe, Daniel, 1983- author.

Series:

Clarendon studies in criminology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clemency--Southeast Asia.

Clemency.

Capital punishment--Southeast Asia.

Capital punishment.

Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

xvi, 345 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

All five contemporary practitioners of the death penalty in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam, have performed executions on a regular basis over the past few decades. NGO Amnesty International currently classifies each of these nations as death penalty 'retentionists'. However, notwithstanding a common willingness to execute, the number of death sentences passed by courts that are reduced to a term of imprisonment or where the prisoner is released from custody altogether, through grants of clemency by the executive branch of government, varies remarkably among these neighbouring political allies. 0In Last Chance for Life: Clemency in Southeast Asian Death Penalty Cases, the patterns which explain why some countries in the region award clemency far more often than do others in death penalty cases are explored and explained. Over the period under analysis from 1991 to 2016, the regional outliers were Thailand (with more than 95% of condemned prisoners receiving clemency after exhausting judicial appeals) and Singapore (with fewer than 1% of condemned prisoners receiving clemency).0Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam fall at points in between these two extremes. What results is the first research monograph, anywhere in the world, to compare death penalty clemency across national borders using empirical methodology, the latter a systematic collection of clemency data in multiple jurisdictions using archival and 'elite' interview sources. Last Chance for Life: Clemency in Southeast Asian Death Penalty Cases is an authoritative resource for legal practitioners, criminal justice policy makers, scholars and activists throughout the ASEAN region and around the world.

Contents:

1 Sources and Methods p. 19

Comparative Criminal Justice Case Studies p. 20

Triangulating Sources in Four Semi-Secretive Jurisdictions p. 23

Calculating and Comparing Clemency Rates p. 31

Rigour or 'Guesswork'? p. 37

2 Four Models of Clemency p. 39

Reasons and Recipients: The Four Models of Clemency p. 45

Explaining Variation: A Summary of the Theoretical and Empirical Literature p. 50

Becoming Ever Rarer p. 64

3 Kingdom of Thailand p. 66

Death Penalty and Clemency Practice 1991-2016 p. 67

Explaining the High Clemency Rate in Thailand p. 78

Explaining Executions, Not Clemency p. 91

4 Republic of Singapore p. 95

Death Penalty and Clemency Practice 1991-2016 p. 96

Explaining the Low Clemency Rate in Singapore p. 107

Clemency's Arbitrariness p. 122

5 Federation of Malaysia p. 125

Death Penalty and Clemency Practice 1991-2016 p. 127

Explaining the High Clemency Rate in Malaysia p. 142

The Symbolic Value of the Mandatory Death Penalty p. 156

6 Republic of Indonesia p. 159

Death Penalty and Clemency Practice 1991-2016 p. 161

Explaining the Medium Clemency Rate in Indonesia p. 175

Neither Here Nor There p. 191

7 What Accounts for Southeast Asia's Diverse Clemency Practice? p. 193

Clemency Decision Makers p. 194

The Four Models of Clemency p. 197

Factors Contributing to Clemency Incidence p. 200

Factors Not Previously Discussed p. 217

A Three-Part Hypothesis p. 222

Conclusion: Clemency's Place p. 226

Implications for Future Scholarship p. 227

Implications for Practitioners and Policymakers p. 238.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780198809715

0198809719

OCLC:

1083908794