Against the death penalty
Subtitle: international initiatives and implications
By: by Jon Yorke.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780754674139
Subjects: Capital punishment; Life imprisonment
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Roger Hood; title: The United Nations and abolition of the death penalty / William Schabas; title: The evolving human rights discourse of the Council of Europe : renouncing the sovereign right of the death penalty / Jon Yorke; title: Taking the death penalty debate further : the African Commission on human and people's rights / Lilian Chenwi; title: Challenging the death penalty in the Caribbean : litigation at the privy council / Quincy Whitaker; title: Constraining America's death penalty : the Eighth Amendment and excessive punishment / Julian Killingley; title: Walking the Eighth Amendment tightrope : "time served" in the United States Supreme Court / Jane Marriott; title: A crisis of confidence : Americans' doubts about the death penalty / Richard Dieter; title: The death penalty in China : towards the rule of law / Nicola Macbean; title: The abolitionist movement in death penalty-friendly Asia : the cases of South Korea and Taiwan / Sangmin Bae; title: Capital punishment : a review and critique of abolition strategies / Peter Hodgkinson, Seema Kandelia, and Lina Gyllensten; title: A fate worse than death? the problems with life imprisonment as an alternative to the death penalty / Rachael Stokes.