edited by Peter Hodgkinson and William A. Schabas.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2004.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xiv, 374 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Capital punishment.
International Standard Book Number
0521815908
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Capital punishment.
Peine de mort.
Afschaffing.
Capital punishment.
Doodstraf.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Penology.
(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
JBV
SOC-- 030000
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
364
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66
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
HV8694
Book number
.
C2853
2004eb
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Hodgkinson, Peter, (Director of the Centre for Capital Punishment Studies)