Comparative capital punishment / edited by Carol S. Steiker, Jordan M Steiker.
2019
K5104 .C66 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
Comparative capital punishment / edited by Carol S. Steiker, Jordan M Steiker.
Imprint
Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019.
Description
xiii, 426 pages ; 25 cm.
Series
Research handbooks in comparative law.
Formatted Contents Note
Part I: Introduction
Introduction: international perspectives on the death penalty / Richard C. Dieter
Part II: Substantive Law
Deserving of death: the changing scope of capital offenses in an age of death penalty decline / Delphine Lourtau
Deciding who lives and who dies: eligibility for capital punishment under national and international law / Sandra L. Babcock
Part III: Procedural Law
Extradition and non-refoulement / Bharat Malkani
An unfair fight for justice: legal representation of persons facing the death penalty / Sandra L. Babcock
Towards a global theory of capital clemency incidence / Daniel Pascoe
Part IV: Administration
Imposing a 'mandatory' death penalty: a practice out of sync with evolving standards / Parvais Jabbar
Methods of execution: the American story in comparative perspective / Austin Sarat and Keshav Pant
Capital punishment at the intersections of discrimination and disadvantage: the plight of foreign nationals / Carolyn Hoyle
Innocence and the global death penalty / Brandon L. Garrett
Part V: Institutions
International law and the abolition of the death penalty / William A. Schabas
The role of institutions in the norm life cycle: the United Nations and the anti-capital punishment norm / Sangmin Bae
Regional institutions and death penalty abolition: comparative perspectives and their discontents / Evi Girling
Undoing the British colonial legacy: the judicial reform of the death penalty / Saul Lehrfreund
Part VI: The Future of the Death Penalty
Reframing the debate on attitudes towards the death penalty / Mai Sato
Pulling states towards abolitionism: the power of acculturation as a socialization mechanism / Michelle Miao
Imagining utopia: the global abolition of the death penalty / Jon Yorke and Amna Nazir
After abolition: the empirical, jurisprudential and strategic legacy of transnational death penalty litigation / Andrew Novak
Global abolition of capital punishment: contributors, challenges and conundrums / Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker
Introduction: international perspectives on the death penalty / Richard C. Dieter
Part II: Substantive Law
Deserving of death: the changing scope of capital offenses in an age of death penalty decline / Delphine Lourtau
Deciding who lives and who dies: eligibility for capital punishment under national and international law / Sandra L. Babcock
Part III: Procedural Law
Extradition and non-refoulement / Bharat Malkani
An unfair fight for justice: legal representation of persons facing the death penalty / Sandra L. Babcock
Towards a global theory of capital clemency incidence / Daniel Pascoe
Part IV: Administration
Imposing a 'mandatory' death penalty: a practice out of sync with evolving standards / Parvais Jabbar
Methods of execution: the American story in comparative perspective / Austin Sarat and Keshav Pant
Capital punishment at the intersections of discrimination and disadvantage: the plight of foreign nationals / Carolyn Hoyle
Innocence and the global death penalty / Brandon L. Garrett
Part V: Institutions
International law and the abolition of the death penalty / William A. Schabas
The role of institutions in the norm life cycle: the United Nations and the anti-capital punishment norm / Sangmin Bae
Regional institutions and death penalty abolition: comparative perspectives and their discontents / Evi Girling
Undoing the British colonial legacy: the judicial reform of the death penalty / Saul Lehrfreund
Part VI: The Future of the Death Penalty
Reframing the debate on attitudes towards the death penalty / Mai Sato
Pulling states towards abolitionism: the power of acculturation as a socialization mechanism / Michelle Miao
Imagining utopia: the global abolition of the death penalty / Jon Yorke and Amna Nazir
After abolition: the empirical, jurisprudential and strategic legacy of transnational death penalty litigation / Andrew Novak
Global abolition of capital punishment: contributors, challenges and conundrums / Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker
Summary
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. 0This 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. Scholars in the fields of law, sociology, political science and history, as well as human rights lawyers, abolitionists, law makers and judges who wish to remain up-to-date on changing death penalty practices will need Comparative Capital Punishment on their reading list.
Note
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. 0This 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. Scholars in the fields of law, sociology, political science and history, as well as human rights lawyers, abolitionists, law makers and judges who wish to remain up-to-date on changing death penalty practices will need Comparative Capital Punishment on their reading list.
Call Number
K5104 .C66 2019
Language
English
ISBN
1786433249
9781786433244
9781786433244
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