The death penalty : a worldwide perspective / Roger Hood and Carolyn Hoyle, Centre for Crimonology, University of Oxford.
2015
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The death penalty : a worldwide perspective / Roger Hood and Carolyn Hoyle, Centre for Crimonology, University of Oxford.
Published
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Copyright
©2015
Call Number
HV8694 .H657 2015
Edition
Fifth edition, revised and updated.
ISBN
9780198701736 (hbk.)
019870173X (hbk.)
0198701748 (pbk.)
9780198701743 (pbk.)
019870173X (hbk.)
0198701748 (pbk.)
9780198701743 (pbk.)
Description
xiv, 597 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)896850832
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-569) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
xiii
Introduction
1
1.
A Short Account of the Project
1
2.
Plan of the Book
4
3.
The Approach Taken Towards Capital Punishment
7
1.
The Abolitionist Movement: Progress and Prospects
10
1.
The Pace of Abolition
10
2.
What Generated the New Wave of Abolition?
22
3.
What Prospects for International Rejection of Capital Punishment?
40
4.
The Importance of Article 6(6) of the ICCPR
47
2.
In the Vanguard of Abolition
49
1.
Western Europe and Australasia: Death-Penalty-Free Zones
49
2.
Eastern Europe: Embracing Abolition
59
3.
States of the Former Soviet Union: From Moratoria to Abolition De Jure
62
4.
South and Central America: Long-Term Supporters of Abolition
70
3.
Where Capital Punishment Remains Contested
75
1.
Variations within the Retentionist Camp
75
2.
The Middle East and North Africa: Cracks in the Bastion?
75
3.
Africa South of the Sahara: Resistance to Abolition Crumbling?
89
4.
Asia and the Pacific: Opening Up the Issue
98
5.
The Caribbean: Colonial Legacies
123
6.
North America: Faltering Support
128
4.
The Scope of Capital Punishment in Law and Practice
148
1.
The Range of Capital Crimes
148
2.
What are `The Most Serious Crimes'?
151
3.
The Principle of Non-Retroactive Enforcement
154
4.
Offences Other than Murder Punishable by Death
156
5.
The Scale of Death Sentences and Executions
169
6.
The Need for Accurate Information
174
5.
The Death Penalty in Practice: The Process of Execution and the Death Row Experience
177
1.
Executing Those Sentenced to Death
177
2.
Under Sentence of Death
202
6.
Excluding the Vulnerable from Capital Punishment
223
1.
Defining Categories
223
2.
Juvenile Defendants
223
3.
The Question of the Aged
233
4.
The Exemption of Pregnant Women and New Mothers
234
5.
The Status of the Intellectually Disabled
237
6.
Protection of the Insane and Severely Mentally Ill
248
7.
Remaining Problems
264
7.
Protecting the Accused and Ensuring Due Process
265
1.
International Standards
265
2.
Ensuring a Fair Trial
268
3.
The Right to Appeal
305
4.
The Right to Seek a Pardon, Clemency, or Commutation of Sentence
312
5.
Finality of Judgment: Awaiting the Outcome of Legal Proceedings
321
6.
Wrongful Convictions and Innocent Persons Exonerated
323
7.
The Illusion of a Fault-Free System
334
8.
Deciding Who Should Die: Problems of Inequity, Arbitrariness, and Racial Discrimination
337
1.
Mandatory or Discretionary?
337
2.
Legal Analyses: The American Experience
354
3.
Criminological Investigations
368
4.
Policy Implications
384
9.
The Question of Deterrence
389
1.
Reliance on the Deterrent Justification
389
2.
Conceptual Issues: The Need for Clarification
394
3.
General Deterrence in Context
396
4.
Assessing Homicide Trends
398
5.
The Comparative Method
404
6.
Measuring the Immediate Impact
408
7.
The Econometric Model
412
8.
Methodological Problems in Measuring the Deterrent Effect
418
9.
Implications for Policy
423
10.
A Question of Opinion or a Question of Principle?
426
1.
The Significance of Public Opinion
426
2.
Public Opinion and the Politics of Abolition
427
3.
The Nature and Measurement of Opinion
436
4.
Changing Public Opinion
451
5.
Abolition and its Effect on Public Opinion
464
6.
A Question of Principle
467
11.
The Challenge of a Suitable Replacement
469
1.
The Nature of the Challenge
469
2.
The Range of Alternative Penalties
472
3.
The Ascendancy of Mandatory Life Without Parole as an Alternative to Capital Punishment in the United States
478
4.
Life Without Hope: The New Challenge to Human Dignity
485
5.
Conditions of Confinement
491
6.
The Challenge of Sentencing Juveniles Convicted of Murder
496
7.
Implications for Policy
501
Appendices
503
1.
Lists of Retentionist and Abolitionist Countries
503
2.
Ratification of International Treaties
517
3.
International Instruments
521
Bibliography
525
Cases Cited
571
Index
577