| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 374 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 and 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 and 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 |
| 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? This book seeks to identify the core issues that influence governments when formulating policy on capital punishment |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Capital punishment.
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Capital Punishment
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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Capital punishment
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Doodstraf.
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Afschaffing.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hodgkinson, Peter (Director of the Centre for Capital Punishment Studies)
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Schabas, William, 1950-
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| ISBN |
9780511184604 |
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0511184603 |
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9780511185434 |
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051118543X |
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9780511186301 |
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0511186304 |
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9780511187230 |
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0511187238 |
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9780511489273 |
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0511489277 |
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1280457848 |
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9781280457845 |
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9786610457847 |
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6610457840 |
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9780521115599 |
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0521115590 |
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1107144779 |
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9781107144774 |
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0511313403 |
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9780511313400 |
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