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The Next Frontier - National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia (Hardcover)
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The Next Frontier - National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Crime and Public Policy
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Today, two-thirds of the world's nations have abolished the death
penalty, either officially or in practice, due mainly to the
campaign to end state executions led by Western European nations.
Will this success spread to Asia, where over 95 percent of
executions now occur? Do Asian values and traditions support
capital punishment, or will development and democratization end
executions in the world's most rapidly developing region?
David T. Johnson, an expert on law and society in Asia, and
Franklin E. Zimring, a senior authority on capital punishment,
combine detailed case studies of the death penalty in Asian nations
with cross-national comparisons to identify the critical factors
for the future of Asian death penalty policy. The clear trend is
away from reliance on state execution and many nations with death
penalties in their criminal codes rarely use it. Only the hard-line
authoritarian regimes of China, Vietnam, Singapore, and North Korea
execute with any frequency, and when authoritarian states
experience democratic reforms, the rate of executions drops
sharply, as in Taiwan and South Korea. Debunking the myth of "Asian
values," Johnson and Zimring demonstrate that politics, rather than
culture or tradition, is the major obstacle to the end of
executions. Carefully researched and full of valuable lessons, The
Next Frontier is the authoritative resource on the death penalty in
Asia for scholars, policymakers, and advocates around the
world.
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