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Subject(s)

• Capital punishment [Browse]
• Life imprisonment [Browse]

Related name

• Yorke, Jon [Browse]

Series

Law, justice, and power

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Roger Hood
• The United Nations and abolition of the death penalty / William 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 people's 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 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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ISBN

• 9780754674139 (alk. paper)
• 0754674134

LCCN

^^2008026235

OCLC

231948167

RCP

H - S

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