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The Death Penalty - A Worldwide Perspective (Hardcover, 5th Revised edition)
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The Death Penalty - A Worldwide Perspective (Hardcover, 5th Revised edition)
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The fifth edition of this highly praised study charts and explains
the progress that continues to be made towards the goal of
worldwide abolition of the death penalty. The majority of nations
have now abolished the death penalty and the number of executions
has dropped in almost all countries where abolition has not yet
taken place. Emphasising the impact of international human rights
principles and evidence of abuse, the authors examine how this has
fuelled challenges to the death penalty and they analyse and
appraise the likely obstacles, political and cultural, to further
abolition. They discuss the cruel realities of the death penalty
and the failure of international standards always to ensure fair
trials and to avoid arbitrariness, discrimination and conviction of
the innocent: all violations of the right to life. They provide
further evidence of the lack of a general deterrent effect; shed
new light on the influence and limits of public opinion; and argue
that substituting for the death penalty life imprisonment without
parole raises many similar human rights concerns. This edition
provides a strong intellectual and evidential basis for regarding
capital punishment as undeniably cruel, inhuman and degrading.
Widely relied upon and fully updated to reflect the current state
of affairs worldwide, this is an invaluable resource for all those
who study the death penalty and work towards its removal as an
international goal.
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