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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hood, Roger, Deva, Surya
Language:English
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.