The death penalty as torture : from the dark ages to abolition / John D. Bessler.
2017
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Author
Title
The death penalty as torture : from the dark ages to abolition / John D. Bessler.
Published
Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2017]
Call Number
K5104 .B48 2017
ISBN
9781611639261 (alk. paper)
1611639263 (alk. paper)
1611639263 (alk. paper)
Description
xliii, 416 pages ; 27 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)956263826
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Soll Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Soll Fund
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
xiii
ch. 1
Dark Ages
3
Executions
3
Brief History of Torture
8
Pain --- and Pangs of Guilt
15
ch. 2
Enlightenment
33
Montesquieu, Beccaria and the Enlightenment
33
Turning Point
39
ch. 3
Abolition Movement
53
Impact of Beccaria's Book
53
First Successes
57
From the Industrial Age to the Information Age
59
United Nations
64
ch. 4
Machinery of Death
77
Law of Murder
77
Filing of Capital Charges
81
Capital Trials and Death Sentences
85
Conditions of Confinement
86
Executions
91
ch. 5
U.S. Supreme Court
117
Split Decisions
117
Ultimate Punishment
122
Eighth Amendment
127
ch. 6
Law and Its Evolution
141
Prohibitions of Torture and Cruelty
141
Torture vs. CIDT and Evolving Standards
145
Non-Lethal Torturous Acts
150
ch. 7
Lawful vs. Unlawful Sanctions
173
Lawful Sanctions and Line Drawing
173
Reservations, Understandings and Declarations
176
Evading the Application of International Law
181
Trepidation and the Torture Convention
183
Haiti and Hades: The Epic Battle over Torture and "Lawful Sanctions"
187
International Convention --- and Domestic Law
191
Interpreting the Law
194
Torture Convention's "Object and Purpose"
197
ch. 8
Death Penalty as Torture
217
Death Threats and Non-State Torture
217
Death Sentences and State-Sanctioned Executions
224
ch. 9
Jus Cogens Norm
255
Tipping Point?
255
Jus Cogens
260
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
265
New World Order
268
Evolving Standards and Human Rights
275
Conclusion
303
About the Author
351
Index
353