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Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia: Human Rights, Politics and Public Opinion

Edited by: Roger Hood, Surya Deva

ISBN13: 9780199685776
Published: November 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £120.00



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Capital punishment has for many years now been the subject of controversy and moral debate. With the strengthening focus worldwide on human rights there has been a movement to abolish this form of punishment or in the least, uphold the minimum international law standards aimed at protecting the rights of those facing capital punishment. This book identifies Asia as being particularly unaffected by these international pressures. The essays contained in this volume provide an analysis of changes in the scope and application of the death penalty in Asian countries, and explain in what ways they fail to meet these international law standards.

Subjects:
Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Other Jurisdictions , Asia
Contents:
SITUATING ASIA IN AN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CONTEXT
1. State Execution: Is Asia Different and Why?
2. The Impact and Importance of International Human Rights Standards: Asia in World Perspective
3. Examining China's Response to the Global Campaign against the Death Penalty
4. The Role of National Human Rights Institutions in Abolishing Capital Punishment: A Critical Evaluation
5. The Role of Abolitionist Nations in stopping the use of the Death Penalty in Asia: The Case of Australia

THE PROGRESS SO FAR
6. Recent Reforms and Prospects in China
7. Abolition of the Death Penalty in India: Constitutional and Human Rights Dimensions
8. Singapore's Death Penalty: The Beginning of the End?
9. Progress and Problems in Japanese Capital Punishment

PUBLIC OPINION AND DEATH PENALTY REFORM
10. Capital Punishment Reform, Public Opinion, and Penal Elitism in the People's Republic of China
11. Challenging the Japanese Government's Approach to the Death Penalty

THE POLITICS OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN PRACTICE
12. Suspending Death in Chinese Capital Cases: The Road to Reform
13. Death Penalty in the 'Rarest of Rare' Cases: A Critique of Judicial Choice-Making
14. Don't be Cruel: The 'Death Row Phenomenon' and India's 'Delay' Jurisprudence