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Confronting Capital Punishment In Asia Human Rights, Politics, And Public Opinion

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Confronting Capital Punishment In Asia Human Rights, Politics, And Public Opinion

\ Edited By Roger Hood, Surya Deva

Oxford , New York

: Oxford University Press

, 2013

xiv, 321p

State execution : is Asia different and why?Franklin E. Zimring -- The impact and importance ofinternational human rights standards : Asia in world perspective / Saul Lehrfreund -- Examining China's responses to the global campaign against the death penalty / Michelle Miao -- The role of national human rights institutions in abolishing capital punishment : a critical evaluation / Y.S.R. Murthy -- The role of abolitionist nations in stopping the use of the death penalty in Asia : the case of Australia / Sam Garkawe -- Recent reforms and prospects in China / Liu Renwen -- Abolition of the death penalty in India : legal, constitutional, and human rights dimensions / Amit Bindal and C. Raj Kumar -- Singapore's death penalty : the beginning of the end? / Michael Hor -- Progress and problems in Japanese capital punishment / David T. Johnson -- Capital punishment reform, public opinion, and penal elitism in the People's Republic of China / Børge Bakken -- Challenging the Japanese government's approach to the death penalty / Mai Sato -- Suspending death in Chinese capital cases : the road to reform / Susan Trevaskes -- Death penalty in the rarest of rare cases : a critique of judicial choice-making / Surya Deva -- Don't be cruel : the death row phenomenon and India's delay jurisprudence / Bikramjeet Batra.

Bibliography

Capital punishment -- Asia -- Congresses.

اعدام -- آسیا -- کنگره ها

Hood, Roger, 1936-

Deva, Surya

Confronting capital punishment in Asia : progress and prospects for law reform (2011: Hong Kong)