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Confronting capital punishment in Asia : human rights, politics and public opinion /

Bibliografiske detaljer
Andre forfattere: Hood, Roger, Deva, Surya
Sprog:English
Udgivelse:First edition.
Fag:
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250 |a First edition. 
300 |a xiv, 321 pages ; 
500 |a This book is the outcome of a conference entitled "Confronting capital punishment in Asia : progress and prospects for law reform" held on 4-5 November, 2011 at City University of Hong Kong, under the auspices of its Law School." --page [v]. 
505 0 |a State execution : is Asia different and why? / Franklin E. Zimring -- The impact and importance of international human rights standards : Asia in world perspective / Saul Lehrfreund -- Examining China's responses to the global campaign against the death penalty / Michelle Miao -- The role of national human rights institutions in abolishing capital punishment : a critical evaluation / Y.S.R. Murthy -- The role of abolitionist nations in stopping the use of the death penalty in Asia : the case of Australia / Sam Garkawe -- Recent reforms and prospects in China / Liu Renwen -- Abolition of the death penalty in India : legal, constitutional, and human rights dimensions / Amit Bindal and C. Raj Kumar -- Singapore's death penalty : the beginning of the end? / Michael Hor -- Progress and problems in Japanese capital punishment / David T. Johnson -- Capital punishment reform, public opinion, and penal elitism in the People's Republic of China / Børge Bakken -- Challenging the Japanese government's approach to the death penalty / Mai Sato -- Suspending death in Chinese capital cases : the road to reform / Susan Trevaskes -- Death penalty in the rarest of rare cases : a critique of judicial choice-making / Surya Deva -- Don't be cruel : the death row phenomenon and India's delay jurisprudence / Bikramjeet Batra. 
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