The barbaric punishment : abolishing the death penalty

ISBN	904112151X (hbk.)
Call Number	HV8694 F822 2003
Author	Franck, Hans Goran, 1925-1997
Title	The barbaric punishment : abolishing the death penalty / Hans Goran Franck ; in cooperation with Klas Nyman ;revised and edited by William A. Schabas
Imprint	The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff, c2003.
Physical	xii, 163 p. ; 25 cm.
Note	Introduction / William A. Schabas --Public Opinion and its Role in Criminal Law Policy --International Political Initiatives --American Exceptionalism? --The Time is Ripe --The Crucial Battle --Arguments for and Against the Death Penalty --The Death Penalty and General Prevention --Deterrence in Wartime --Scientific Studies --Opinion Polls --Vengeance, Retaliation and Retribution --The Respect for Human Life --Similar to Torture --Execution in San Quentin --Methods of Execution --The Electric Chair --The Gas Chamber --Lethal Injections and Other Methods of Execution --The Death Row Phenomenon --Executing the Innocent --Capital Punishment More Expensive --Capital Punishment is Usually not Reintroduced.
Note	1 aHistorical Uses of the Death Penalty --Retaliation and Vendettas --The Fate of Socrates --Theocratic Retaliation Theory --The Message of Love in the New Testament --Opposition to the Death Penalty --Cesare Beccaria-a Turning Point --Criminal Man --Venezuela-the First Abolitionist Country.
Note	The Death Penalty in International Law --The United Nations --The United Nations Resolution on the Death Penalty --The Death Penalty on the United Nations' Agenda --The Ban on Reintroducing the Death Penalty --The United Nations Aims for Total Abolition --Peacetime Abolition of the Death Penalty --The Secretary-General's Report --International Criminal Tribunals Oppose the Death Penalty --The European Convention on Human Rights and the Council of Europe --Other Regional Arrangements --The Death Penalty in Humanitarian Law --Exemptions from the Use of the Death Penalty --Legal Precedents from the United States --Legal Precedents from South Africa.
Note	Worldwide use of the Death Penalty --he Dealth Penalty in Sweden --The Death Penalty and Democracy.
Subject	Capital punishment--Moral and ethical aspects
Subject	Capital punishment--History
Coorperative Author	Nyman, Klas
Coorperative Author	Schabas, William A.

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7001^aNyman,Klas 0^aSchabas,WilliamA.

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