Against the death penalty : international initiatives and implications / edited by Jon Yorke.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Law, justice, and power.
Other Authors: Yorke, Jon
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2008], ©2008.
Series:Law, justice, and power.
Subjects:
Physical Description:xviii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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505 0 |a 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. 
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