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Comparative Capital Punishment
Edited by Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker
Comparative Capital Punishment offers a set of in-depth, critical and comparative contributions addressing death practices around the world. Despite the dramatic decline of the death penalty in the last half of the twentieth century, capital punishment remains in force in a substantial number of countries around the globe. This research handbook explores both the forces behind the stunning recent rejection of the death penalty, as well as the changing shape of capital practices where it is retained. The expert contributors address the social, political, economic, and cultural influences on both retention and abolition of the death penalty and consider the distinctive possibilities and pathways to worldwide abolition.
Handbook
- Published in print:
- 04 Nov 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781786433244
- eISBN:
- 9781786433251
- Pages:
- c 448
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- Comparative Capital Punishment
- Copyright
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction: international perspectives on the death penalty
- Chapter 2: Deserving of death: the changing scope of capital offenses in an age of death penalty decline
- Chapter 3: Deciding who lives and who dies: eligibility for capital punishment under national and international law
- Chapter 4: Extradition and non-refoulement
- Chapter 5: An unfair fight for justice: legal representation of persons facing the death penalty
- Chapter 6: Towards a global theory of capital clemency incidence
- Chapter 7: Imposing a mandatory death penalty: a practice out of sync with evolving standards
- Chapter 8: Methods of execution: the American story in comparative perspective
- Chapter 9: Capital punishment at the intersections of discrimination and disadvantage: the plight of foreign nationals
- Chapter 10: Innocence and the global death penalty
- Chapter 11: International law and the abolition of the death penalty
- Chapter 12: The role of institutions in the norm life cycle: the United Nations and the anti-capital punishment norm
- Chapter 13: Regional institutions and death penalty abolition: comparative perspectives and their discontents
- Chapter 14: Undoing the British colonial legacy: the judicial reform of the death penalty
- Chapter 15: Reframing the debate on attitudes towards the death penalty
- Chapter 16: Pulling states towards abolitionism: the power of acculturation as a socialization mechanism
- Chapter 17: Imagining utopia: the global abolition of the death penalty
- Chapter 18: After abolition: the empirical, jurisprudential and strategic legacy of transnational death penalty litigation
- Chapter 19: Global abolition of capital punishment: contributors, challenges and conundrums
- Index
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Handbook Chapter
- Published:
- 4 November 2019
- Category:
- Handbook Chapter
- Pages:
- 411–426 (16 total)
Collection:
Law 2019
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- Comparative Capital Punishment
- Copyright
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction: international perspectives on the death penalty
- Chapter 2: Deserving of death: the changing scope of capital offenses in an age of death penalty decline
- Chapter 3: Deciding who lives and who dies: eligibility for capital punishment under national and international law
- Chapter 4: Extradition and non-refoulement
- Chapter 5: An unfair fight for justice: legal representation of persons facing the death penalty
- Chapter 6: Towards a global theory of capital clemency incidence
- Chapter 7: Imposing a mandatory death penalty: a practice out of sync with evolving standards
- Chapter 8: Methods of execution: the American story in comparative perspective
- Chapter 9: Capital punishment at the intersections of discrimination and disadvantage: the plight of foreign nationals
- Chapter 10: Innocence and the global death penalty
- Chapter 11: International law and the abolition of the death penalty
- Chapter 12: The role of institutions in the norm life cycle: the United Nations and the anti-capital punishment norm
- Chapter 13: Regional institutions and death penalty abolition: comparative perspectives and their discontents
- Chapter 14: Undoing the British colonial legacy: the judicial reform of the death penalty
- Chapter 15: Reframing the debate on attitudes towards the death penalty
- Chapter 16: Pulling states towards abolitionism: the power of acculturation as a socialization mechanism
- Chapter 17: Imagining utopia: the global abolition of the death penalty
- Chapter 18: After abolition: the empirical, jurisprudential and strategic legacy of transnational death penalty litigation
- Chapter 19: Global abolition of capital punishment: contributors, challenges and conundrums
- Index