The Death Penalty S Denial Of Fundamental Human Rights
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The Death Penalty s Denial of Fundamental Human Rights
Author | : John Bessler |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2022-12-31 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781108845571 |
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This book details how capital punishment violates universal human rights and traces the evolution of the world's understanding of torture.
The Death Penalty s Denial of Fundamental Human Rights
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Author | : John D. Bessler |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Capital punishment |
ISBN | : 1108970028 |
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The Death Penalty's Denial of Fundamental Human Rights details how capital punishment violates universal human rights-to life; to be free from torture and other forms of cruelty; to be treated in a non-arbitrary, non-discriminatory manner; and to dignity. In tracing the evolution of the world's understanding of torture, which now absolutely prohibits physical and psychological torture, the book argues that an immutable characteristic of capital punishment-already outlawed in many countries and American states-is that it makes use of death threats. Mock executions and other credible death threats, in fact, have long been treated as torturous acts. When crime victims are threatened with death and are helpless to prevent their deaths, for example, courts routinely find such threats inflict psychological torture. With simulated executions and non-lethal corporal punishments already prohibited as torturous acts, death sentences and real executions, the book contends, must be classified as torturous acts, too.
The Case Against the Death Penalty
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Author | : Hugo Adam Bedau |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Capital punishment |
ISBN | : 0914031015 |
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Moving Away from the Death Penalty
Author | : Ivan Šimonović |
Publsiher | : UN |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9211542154 |
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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.
The Right to Life
Author | : Christian Tomuschat,Evelyne Lagrange,Stefan Oeter |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2010-03-08 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9789004189652 |
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The right to life is the cornerstone of human rights protection. This book explores the mechanisms and procedures through which at international level the attempt is made to safeguard human life against all structural threats, even in armed conflict.
When the State Kills
Author | : Amnesty International |
Publsiher | : New York, NY : Amnesty International USA |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105002533003 |
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Risks to the innocent
Crimes and Punishments
Author | : James Anson Farrer |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Capital punishment |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105025129896 |
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The Death Penalty
Author | : Ernest Van den Haag,John Phillips Conrad |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2013-06-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781489927873 |
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From 1965 until 1980, there was a virtual moratorium on executions for capital offenses in the United States. This was due primarily to protracted legal proceedings challenging the death penalty on constitutional grounds. After much Sturm und Drang, the Supreme Court of the United States, by a divided vote, finally decided that "the death penalty does not invariably violate the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eighth Amendment." The Court's decisions, however, do not moot the controversy about the death penalty or render this excellent book irrelevant. The ball is now in the court of the Legislature and the Executive. Leg islatures, federal and state, can impose or abolish the death penalty, within the guidelines prescribed by the Supreme Court. A Chief Executive can commute a death sentence. And even the Supreme Court can change its mind, as it has done on many occasions and did, with respect to various aspects of the death penalty itself, durlog the moratorium period. Also, the people can change their minds. Some time ago, a majority, according to reliable polls, favored abolition. Today, a substantial majority favors imposition of the death penalty. The pendulum can swing again, as it has done in the past.