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This is a comprehensive and nuanced historical survey of the death
penalty in Ireland from the immediate post-civil war period through
to its complete abolition. Using original archival material, this
book sheds light on the various social, legal and political
contexts in which the death penalty operated and was discussed. In
Ireland the death penalty served a dual function: as an instrument
of punishment in the civilian criminal justice system, and as a
weapon to combat periodic threats to the security of the state
posed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Through close examination
of cases dealt with in the ordinary criminal courts, this study
elucidates ideas of class, gender, community and sanity and
explores their impact on the administration of justice. The
application of the death penalty also had a strong political
dimension, most evident in the enactment of emergency legislation
and the setting up of military courts specifically aimed at the
IRA. As the book demonstrates, the civilian and the political
strands converged in the story of the abolition of the death
penalty in Ireland. Long after decision-makers accepted that the
death penalty was no longer an acceptable punishment for 'ordinary'
cases of murder, lingering anxieties about the threat of
subversives dictated the pace of abolition and the scope of the
relevant legislation.
This is a comprehensive and nuanced historical survey of the death
penalty in Ireland from the immediate post-civil war period through
to its complete abolition. Using original archival material, this
book sheds light on the various social, legal and political
contexts in which the death penalty operated and was discussed. In
Ireland the death penalty served a dual function: as an instrument
of punishment in the civilian criminal justice system, and as a
weapon to combat periodic threats to the security of the state
posed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Through close examination
of cases dealt with in the ordinary criminal courts, this study
elucidates ideas of class, gender, community and sanity and
explores their impact on the administration of justice. The
application of the death penalty also had a strong political
dimension, most evident in the enactment of emergency legislation
and the setting up of military courts specifically aimed at the
IRA. As the book demonstrates, the civilian and the political
strands converged in the story of the abolition of the death
penalty in Ireland. Long after decision-makers accepted that the
death penalty was no longer an acceptable punishment for 'ordinary'
cases of murder, lingering anxieties about the threat of
subversives dictated the pace of abolition and the scope of the
relevant legislation.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Seventy: A Review of
Successes and Challenges celebrates the seventieth anniversary of
the Declaration and provides an analysis of how it has contributed
to the protection of human rights globally. It also identifies and
discusses a number of the challenges to the realisation of rights
set out in the instrument. The chapters, authored by academics and
practitioners in the field of human rights, provide insights into
the drafting of the UDHR, human rights activism, the rights
protected by the instrument, as well as the relationship between
the Declaration and other human rights protective mechanisms.
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