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As most jurisdictions move away from the death penalty, some remain
strongly committed to it, while others hold on to it but use it
sparingly. This volume seeks to understand why, by examining the
death penalty's relationship to state governance in the past and
present. It also examines how international, transnational and
national forces intersect in order to understand the possibilities
of future death penalty abolition. The chapters cover the USA - the
only western democracy that still uses the death penalty - and Asia
- the site of some 90 per cent of all executions. Also included are
discussions of the death penalty in Islam and its practice in
selected Muslim majority countries. There is also a comparative
chapter departing from the response to the mass killings in Norway
in 2011. Leading experts in law, criminology and human rights
combine theory and empirical research to further our understanding
of the relationships between ways of governance, the role of
leadership and the death penalty practices. This book questions
whether the death penalty in and of itself is a hazard to a
sustainable development of criminal justice. It is an invaluable
resource for all those researching and campaigning for the global
abolition of capital punishment.
As most jurisdictions move away from the death penalty, some remain
strongly committed to it, while others hold on to it but use it
sparingly. This volume seeks to understand why, by examining the
death penalty's relationship to state governance in the past and
present. It also examines how international, transnational and
national forces intersect in order to understand the possibilities
of future death penalty abolition. The chapters cover the USA - the
only western democracy that still uses the death penalty - and Asia
- the site of some 90 per cent of all executions. Also included are
discussions of the death penalty in Islam and its practice in
selected Muslim majority countries. There is also a comparative
chapter departing from the response to the mass killings in Norway
in 2011. Leading experts in law, criminology and human rights
combine theory and empirical research to further our understanding
of the relationships between ways of governance, the role of
leadership and the death penalty practices. This book questions
whether the death penalty in and of itself is a hazard to a
sustainable development of criminal justice. It is an invaluable
resource for all those researching and campaigning for the global
abolition of capital punishment.
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