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Confronting capital punishment in Asia : human rights, politics and public opinion /
Capital punishment has for many years now been the subject of controversy and moral debate. With the strengthening focus worldwide on human rights there has been a movement to abolish this form of punishment or in the least, uphold the minimum international law standards aimed at protecting the righ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2013]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- State execution : is Asia different and why? / Franklin E. Zimring
- The impact and importance of international human rights standards : Asia in world perspective / Saul Lehrfreund
- Examining China's responses to the global campaign against the death penalty / Michelle Miao
- The role of national human rights institutions in abolishing capital punishment : a critical evaluation / Y.S.R. Murthy
- The role of abolitionist nations in stopping the use of the death penalty in Asia : the case of Australia / Sam Garkawe
- Recent reforms and prospects in China / Liu Renwen
- Abolition of the death penalty in India : legal, constitutional, and human rights dimensions / Amit Bindal and C. Raj Kumar
- Singapore's death penalty : the beginning of the end? / Michael Hor
- Progress and problems in Japanese capital punishment / David T. Johnson
- Capital punishment reform, public opinion, and penal elitism in the People's Republic of China / Børge Bakken
- Challenging the Japanese government's approach to the death penalty / Mai Sato
- Suspending death in Chinese capital cases : the road to reform / Susan Trevaskes
- Death penalty in the rarest of rare cases : a critique of judicial choice-making / Surya Deva
- Don't be cruel : the death row phenomenon and India's delay jurisprudence / Bikramjeet Batra.