The Death Penalty and U.S. Diplomacy: How Foreign Nations and International Organizations Influence U.S. Policy, Kendall Wesley, Siracusa Joseph M.

Автор: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Название: Death Penalty and the Victims
ISBN: 9211542170 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789211542172
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This book includes perspectives from a broad range of victims. While some of them are family members of the crime victims, others are victims of the human rights violations in application of the death penalty, of its brutality and traumatic effects. Victims’ perspectives, taken holistically, make a compelling case against the death penalty. When it comes to the death penalty, almost everyone loses.Victims’ family members mostly end up frustrated. If they are against the death penalty and the death penalty is imposed on the perpetrator, the cycle of violence is continuing instead of being broken. If they want revenge, just a few can get it, and often, only after many years. Meanwhile, the expectation of the execution prevents closure and moving forward.The convicted persons may be considered victims if the criminal response of the justice system violates their human rights, through wrongful convictions, unequal and discriminatory application of justice, lack of a due process, imposing the death penalty for crimes that do not meet the “most serious crimes” threshold or to the categories of perpetrators that should be protected from the death penalty (minors, persons with mental or intellectual disabilities, pregnant women). Long delays, conditions on a death row and the application of the death penalty may amount to torture, or at least inhuman and degrading treatment. Third parties are the “hidden victims” of the death penalty. When compared to other forms of punishment, the death penalty disproportionality affects mental health and well-being of family members of the convicted person (especially children and primary care-takers), as well as third persons included in criminal proceedings or executions (such as prosecutors, judges, lawyer and executioners). Finally, the state’s right to execute violates the right to life and negatively reflects on human rights of its citizens in general.The perspectives of the victims on the death penalty as reflected in this book are likely to provoke tough discussions and polemics. This may be a welcome challenge. There is a strong and empirically proven correlation between the evidence-based discussion on the death penalty and moving away from it.

Автор: United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Название: Moving Away from the Death Penalty: Arguments, Trends and Perspectives
ISBN: 9211542154 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789211542158
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Описание: Capital punishment is irrevocable. It prohibits the correction of mistakes by the justice system and leaves no room for human error, with the gravest of consequences. There is no evidence of a deterrent effect of the death penalty. Those sacrificed on the altar of retributive justice are almost always the most vulnerable. This book covers a wide range of topics, from the discriminatory application of the death penalty, wrongful convictions, proven lack of deterrence effect, to legality of the capital punishment under international law and the morality of taking of human life.

Автор: Liang Bin, Lu Hong
Название: The Death Penalty in China: Policy, Practice, and Reform
ISBN: 0231170068 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231170062
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Explains what it took to advance reforms to limit death sentences and executions in China while identifying the challenges that prevent more extensive progress

Автор: Garrett Brandon L.
Название: End of Its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice
ISBN: 0674970993 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674970991
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Описание: Today, death sentences in the U.S. are as rare as lethal lightning strikes. Brandon Garrett shows us the reasons why, and explains what the failed death penalty experiment teaches about the effect of inept lawyering, overzealous prosecution, race discrimination, wrongful convictions, and excessive punishments throughout the criminal justice system.

Автор: Todd C. Peppers, Margaret A. Anderson
Название: A Courageous Fool: Marie Deans and Her Struggle against the Death Penalty
ISBN: 0826521606 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826521606
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Описание: There have been many heroes and victims in the battle to abolish the death penalty, and Marie Deans fits into both of those categories. A South Carolina native who yearned to be a fiction writer, Marie was thrust by a combination of circumstances--including the murder of her beloved mother-in-law--into a world much stranger than fiction, a world in which minorities and the poor were selected to be sacrificed to what Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun called the machinery of death.

Marie found herself fighting to bring justice to the legal process and to bring humanity not only to prisoners on death row but to the guards and wardens as well. During Marie's time as a death penalty opponent in South Carolina and Virginia, she experienced the highs of helping exonerate the innocent and the lows of standing death watch in the death house with thirty-four condemned men.

Автор: Eugene G. Wanger
Название: Fighting the Death Penalty: A Fifty-Year Journey of Argument and Persuasion
ISBN: 1611863686 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611863680
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Описание: Michigan is the only state in the country that has a death penalty prohibition in its constitution-Eugene G. Wanger`s compelling arguments against capital punishment is a large reason it is there. The forty pieces in this volume are writings created or used by the author, who penned the prohibition clause, during his fifty years as a death penalty abolitionist.

Автор: Carsten Anckar
Название: Determinants of the Death Penalty: A Comparative Study of the World
ISBN: 0415860113 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415860116
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This global study uses statistical analysis to relate the popularity of the death penalty to physical, cultural, social, economical, institutional, actor oriented and historical factors.

Автор: Novak
Название: The Death Penalty in Africa
ISBN: 1137438754 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137438751
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: In recent years the death penalty has sharply declined across Africa, but this trend belies actual public opinion and the retributivist sentiments held by political elites. This study explains capital punishment in Africa in terms of culturally specific notions of life and death as well as the colonial-era imposition of criminal and penal policy.

Автор: S. Trevaskes
Название: The Death Penalty in Contemporary China
ISBN: 134937816X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349378166
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Описание: China`s infamous death penalty record is the product of firm Party-state control and policy-setting. Though during the 1980s and 1990s, the Party`s emphasis was on "kill many," in the 2000s the direction of policy began to move toward "kill fewer." This book details the policies, institutions, and story behind the reform of the death penalty.

Название: Killing Times: The Temporal Technology of the Death Penalty
ISBN: 0823283526 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780823283521
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Killing Times begins with the deceptively simple observation—made by Jacques Derrida in his seminars on the topic—that the death penalty mechanically interrupts mortal time by preempting the typical mortal experience of not knowing at what precise moment we will die. Through a broader examination of what constitutes mortal temporality, David Wills proposes that the so-called machinery of death summoned by the death penalty works by exploiting, or perverting, the machinery of time that is already attached to human existence. Time, Wills argues, functions for us in general as a prosthetic technology, but the application of the death penalty represents a new level of prosthetic intervention into what constitutes the human.
Killing Times traces the logic of the death penalty across a range of sites. Starting with the legal cases whereby American courts have struggled to articulate what methods of execution constitute “cruel and unusual punishment,” Wills goes on to show the ways that technologies of death have themselves evolved in conjunction with ideas of cruelty and instantaneity, from the development of the guillotine and the trap door for hanging, through the firing squad and the electric chair, through today’s controversies surrounding lethal injection. Responding to the legal system’s repeated recourse to storytelling—prosecutors’ and politicians’ endless recounting of the horrors of crimes—Wills gives a careful eye to the narrative, even fictive spaces that surround crime and punishment.
Many of the controversies surrounding capital punishment, Wills argues, revolve around the complex temporality of the death penalty: how its instant works in conjunction with forms of suspension, or extension of time; how its seeming correlation between egregious crime and painless execution is complicated by a number of different discourses.
By pinpointing the temporal technology that marks the death penalty, Wills is able to show capital punishment’s expansive reach, tracing the ways it has come to govern not only executions within the judicial system, but also the opposed but linked categories of the suicide bombing and drone warfare. In discussing the temporal technology of death, Wills elaborates the workings both of the terrorist who produces a simultaneity of crime and “punishment” that bypasses judicial process, and of the security state, in whose remote-control killings the time-space coordinates of “justice” are compressed and at the same time disappear into the black hole of secrecy.
Grounded in a deep ethical and political commitment to death penalty abolition, Wills’s engaging and powerfully argued book pushes the question of capital punishment beyond the confines of legal argument to show how the technology of capital punishment defines and appropriates the instant of death and reconfigures the whole of human mortality.