Capital punishment
Subtitle: global issues and prospects
By: edited by Peter Hodgkinson, Andrew Rutherford.
Contributors: Hodgkinson, Peter, director of the Centre for Capital Punishment Studies.; Rutherford, Andrew, 1940-
Series: Waterside Press criminal policy series ;; v. 2
Publisher: Waterside Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Winchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Capital punishment.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.