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Capital Punishment: Strategies for Abolition

By William A. Schabas , Peter Hodgkinson

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
0521815908, 9780521815901, 9780511184604
Open Library ID
OL17119251M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1915608 bytes)
Pages
388\390
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The editors of this study isolate the core issues influencing legislation so that they can be incorporated into strategies that advise governments in changing their policy on capital punishment. What are the critical factors determining 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? These questions and others are explored in chapters on South Korea, Lithuania, Georgia, Japan and the British Caribbean Commonwealth, as well as the U.S.

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