Abolishing Death
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The Barbaric Punishment
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Author : Hans Göran Franck
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-09-13
The Barbaric Punishment written by Hans Göran Franck and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-13 with Law categories.
In this volume, Swedish human rights activist and political figure, Hans Göran Franck, examines the administration of the death penalty from a historical perspective. The author's opinions are based on his lifelong work and devotion to abolishing the 'barbaric punishment'. Building upon previously unpublished material and considerable detail drawn from Franck's personal experiences, it focuses on both the progressive developments within European countries and institutions over several decades, and the frustratingly retrograde situation that prevails in the United States. The author dedicated this book to those facing a sentence of death. During the course of his work, the author traveled to numerous countries and met many condemned men and women. Publication of this important volume, which comes a few years after Hans Göran Franck's untimely passing, coincides with a major development to which he contributed, the adoption of Protocol No. 13 to the European Convention on Human Rights, which abolishes capital punishment in both wartime and peacetime. William A. Schabas a law professor who specializes in the subject of capital punishment, has ensured that the manuscript is up to date, and contributed the introductory chapter.
Abolition
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Author : Robert Badinter
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2008-08-29
Abolition written by Robert Badinter and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-29 with History categories.
The English translation of a behind-the-scenes account of the abolition of the death penalty in France
The Death Penalty
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Author : Council of Europe
language : en
Publisher: Council of Europe
Release Date : 1999
The Death Penalty written by Council of Europe and has been published by Council of Europe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Law categories.
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The Death Penalty In Japan
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Author : Mai Sato
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-10-30
The Death Penalty In Japan written by Mai Sato and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-30 with Social Science categories.
This book examines public attitudes to the death penalty in Japan, focusing on knowledge and trust-based attitudinal factors relating to support for, and opposition to, the death penalty. A mixed-method approach was used. Quantitative and qualitative surveys were mounted to assess Japanese death penalty attitudes. The main findings show that death penalty attitudes are not fixed but fluid. Information has a significant impact on reducing support for the death penalty while retributive attitudes are associated with support. This book offers a new conceptual framework in understanding the death penalty without replying on the usual human rights approach, which can be widely applied not just to Japan but to other retentionist countries.
The Road To Abolition
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Author : Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2009-11-01
The Road To Abolition written by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-01 with Law categories.
At the start of the twenty-first century, America is in the midst of a profound national reconsideration of the death penalty. There has been a dramatic decline in the number of people being sentenced to death as well as executed, exonerations have become common, and the number of states abolishing the death penalty is on the rise. The essays featured in The Road to Abolition? track this shift in attitudes toward capital punishment, and consider whether or not the death penalty will ever be abolished in America. The interdisciplinary group of experts gathered by Charles J. Ogletree Jr., and Austin Sarat ask and attempt to answer the hard questions that need to be addressed if the death penalty is to be abolished. Will the death penalty end only to be replaced with life in prison without parole? Will life without the possibility of parole become, in essence, the new death penalty? For abolitionists, might that be a pyrrhic victory? The contributors discuss how the death penalty might be abolished, with particular emphasis on the current debate over lethal injection as a case study on why and how the elimination of certain forms of execution might provide a model for the larger abolition of the death penalty.
The Abolishing Of Death
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Author : Basil King
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
The Abolishing Of Death written by Basil King and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.
What if death was not an inevitable part of the human experience? In this thought-provoking exploration of mortality and immortality, Basil King challenges readers to consider a world in which death has been abolished and explores the spiritual, philosophical, and practical implications of such a reality. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Abolishing Death
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Author : Irene Masing-Delic
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1992-11-01
Abolishing Death written by Irene Masing-Delic and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The idea of abolishing death was one of the most influential myth-making concepts expressed in Russian literature from 1900 to 1930, especially in the works of writers who attributed a "life-modeling" function to art. To them, art was to create a life so aesthetically organized and perfect that immortality would be an inevitable consequence. This idea was mirrored in the thought of some who believed that the political revolution of 1917 would bring about a revolution in basic existential facts: specifically, the belief that communism and the accompanying advance of science would ultimately be able to bestow physical immortality and to resurrect the dead. According to one variant, for example, the dead were to be resurrected by extrapolation from the traces of their labor left in the material world. The author finds the seeds of this extraordinary concept in the erosion of traditional religion in late-nineteenth-century Russia. Influenced by the new power of scientific inquiry, humankind appropriated various divine attributes one after the other, including omnipotence and omniscience, but eventually even aiming toward the realization of individual, physical immortality, and thus aspiring to equality with God. Writers as different as the "decadent" Fyodor Sologub, the "political" Maxim Gorky, and the "gothic" Nikolai Ognyov created works for making mortals into gods, transforming the raw materials of current reality into legend. The book first outlines the ideological context of the immortalization project, notably the impact of the philosophers Fyodorov and Solovyov. The remainder of the book consists of close readings of texts by Sologub, Gorky, Blok, Ognyov, and Zabolotsky. Taken together, the works yield the "salvation program" that tells people how to abolish death and live forever in an eternal, self-created cosmos—gods of a legend that was made possible by creative artists, imaginative scientists, and inspired laborers.
The Abolition Of The Death Penalty In International Law
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Author : William A. Schabas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993-05-01
The Abolition Of The Death Penalty In International Law written by William A. Schabas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-05-01 with Capital punishment categories.
The first step towards the creation of an international human rights norm abolishing the death penalty was taken in 1948 with the recognition of the 'right to life' in Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This book traces the emergence & progressive evolution of this international legal norm through an examination of the relevant conventions of both regional & universal application as well as the specific humanitarian agreements. The author analyses the preparatory works of the relevant international conventions & resolutions, the periodic reports on the subject submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the European Commission & Court of Human Rights & the American Commission & Court of Human Rights. The work explores the different limitations that international law has placed on the imposition of the death penalty: restricting its scope to serious crimes, & the prohibition of its application in the case of pregnant women, juveniles, the elderly & the insane. The author also examines the procedural safeguards required by international law when capital punishment is being considered. The eventual emergence of a customary norm completely abolishing the death penalty is also discussed.
The Abolishing Of Death Classic Reprint
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Author : Basil King
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-06-30
The Abolishing Of Death Classic Reprint written by Basil King and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-30 with Self-Help categories.
Excerpt from The Abolishing of Death It will be observed that the following pages are offered to the reader not as proofs but as phenomena. Moreover, they are presented not as phenomena of an unusual kind but as specimens of a type of writing which if not precisely new has become remarkably abundant. So many are doing it that the very numbers would have a cheapening effect if it were not part of the contention that everyone can do it, and that communication with the plane next above us is as natural as speech. It is because so many people all over the world are putting forth this claim, while so many others too timid or too conservative to put it forth, are longing to see it justified, that the subject urges itself on the mind of the day as one to be taken up. What is happening is briefly this. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Abolishing The Death Penalty
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Author : Gopal Gandhi
language : en
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Release Date : 2016
Abolishing The Death Penalty written by Gopal Gandhi and has been published by Rupa Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Fiction categories.
In Abolishing the Death Penalty: Why India Should Say No to Capital Punishment, Gopalkrishna Gandhi asks fundamental questions about the ultimate legal punishment awarded to those accused of major crimes. Is taking another life a just punishment or an act as inhuman as the crime that triggered it? Does having capital punishment in the law books deter crime? His conclusions are unequivocal: Cruel in its operation, ineffectual as deterrence, unequal in its application in an uneven society, liable like any punishment to be in error but incorrigibly so, these grievous flaws that are intrinsic to the death penalty are compounded by yet another-it leaves the need for retribution (cited as its primary 'good') unrequited and simply makes society more bloodthirsty. Examining capital punishment around the world from the time of Socrates onwards, the author delves into how the penalty was applied in India during the times of Asoka, Sikandar Lodi, Krishnadevaraya, the Peshwas and the British Raj, and how it works today. Of the 195 countries in the world, 140 are abolitionist and no longer have the death penalty in law or in practice. Abolition-minded in theory, India is retentionist in practice-the death penalty can be handed down even for non-homicidal crimes. But even though it is only meant to be handed down in the 'rarest of the rare' cases, there are currently 385 convicts on death row. Through in-depth analysis, persuasive argument and the marshalling of the considered opinion of jurists, human rights activists, scholars and criminologists among others, this book shows exactly why the death penalty should be abolished with immediate effect in India