The Death Penalty As Torture

Author : William Schabas
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : 1555532683

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The Death Penalty as Cruel Treatment and Torture by William Schabas Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...said Mr. Fogg. "Well, your honor," replied the pilot, " I can risk neither my men, nor myself, nor yourself, in so long a voyage on a boat of scarcely twenty tons, at this time of the year. Besides, we would not arrive in time, for it is sixteen hundred and fifty miles from Hong Kong to Yokohama." "Only sixteen hundred," said Mr. Fogg. "It is the same thing." Fix took a good long breath. " But," added the pilot, " there might perhaps be a means to arrange it otherwise." Fix did not breathe any more. "How?" asked Phileas Fogg. " By going to Nagasaki, the southern extremity of Japan, eleven hundred miles, or only to Shanghai, eight Imndred miles from Hong Kong. In this last journey, we wold not be at any distance from the Chinese coast, which v uld be a great advantage, all the more so that the currents run to the north." "Pilot," replied Phileas Fogg, "I must lake the American mail steamer at Yokohama, and not at Shanghai or Nagasaki." "Why not? "replied the pilot " The San Francisco stewnet does not start from Yokohama. She stops there and at Nagasaki, but her port of departure is Shanghai." You are certain of what you are saying? " "Certain." "And when does the steamer leave Shanghai? "On the llth, atseven oclock in the evening. We have then four days before us. Four days, that is ninety-six hours, and with an average of eight knots an hour, if we have good luck, if the wind keeps to the southeast, if the sea is calm, we can make the eight hundred miles which separate us from Shanghai." "And you can leave--" " la an hour, time enough to buy my provisions and hoist sail." " It is a bargain--you are the master of the boat? " " Yes, John Bunsby, master of the Tankadere." " Do you wish some earnest money? " " If it does not inconvenience...

Author : John D. Bessler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 1611639263

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The Death Penalty as Torture by John D. Bessler Pdf

The Death Penalty as Torture: From the Dark Ages to Abolition was named a Bronze Medalist in the World History category of the Independent Publisher Book Awards and a finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards (2018). During the Dark Ages and the Renaissance, Europe's monarchs often resorted to torture and executions. The pain inflicted by instruments of torture--from the thumbscrew and the rack to the Inquisition's tools of torment--was eclipsed only by horrific methods of execution, from breaking on the wheel and crucifixion to drawing and quartering and burning at the stake. The English "Bloody Code" made more than 200 crimes punishable by death, and judicial torture--expressly authorized by law and used to extract confessions--permeated continental European legal systems. Judges regularly imposed death sentences and other harsh corporal punishments, from the stocks and the pillory, to branding and ear cropping, to lashes at public whipping posts. In the Enlightenment, jurists and writers questioned the efficacy of torture and capital punishment. In 1764, the Italian philosopher Cesare Beccaria--the father of the world's anti-death penalty movement--condemned both practices. And Montesquieu, like Beccaria and others, concluded that any punishment that goes beyond absolute necessity is tyrannical. Traditionally, torture and executions have been viewed in separate legal silos, with countries renouncing acts of torture while simultaneously using capital punishment. The UN Convention Against Torture strictly prohibits physical or psychological torture; not even war or threat of war can be invoked to justify it. But under the guise of "lawful sanctions," some countries continue to carry out executions even though they bear the indicia of torture. In The Death Penalty as Torture, Prof. John Bessler argues that death sentences and executions are medieval relics. In a world in which "mock" or simulated executions, as well as a host of other non-lethal acts, are already considered to be torturous, he contends that death sentences and executions should be classified under the rubric of torture. Unlike in the Middle Ages, penitentiaries--one of the products of the Enlightenment--now exist throughout the globe to house violent offenders. With the rise of life without parole sentences, and with more than four of five nations no longer using executions, The Death Penalty as Torture calls for the recognition of a peremptory, international law norm against the death penalty's use.

Author : Franz Böckle,Jacques Marie Pohier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037381204

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The Death Penalty and Torture by Franz Böckle,Jacques Marie Pohier Pdf

"A Crossroad book." Includes bibliographical references.

Author : Leon Shaskolsky Sheleff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0814205313

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Ultimate Penalties by Leon Shaskolsky Sheleff Pdf

Author : John Bessler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108988582

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The Death Penalty's Denial of Fundamental Human Rights by John Bessler Pdf

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.

Author : John D. Bessler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 1108970028

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The Death Penalty's Denial of Fundamental Human Rights by John D. Bessler Pdf

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.

Author : Hans Göran Franck
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004480278

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The Barbaric Punishment by Hans Göran Franck Pdf

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.

Author : William Schabas,Helmut Sax
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789047408673

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A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 37: Prohibition of Torture, Death Penalty, Life Imprisonment and Deprivation of Liberty by William Schabas,Helmut Sax Pdf

This volume constitutes a commentary on Article 37 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Author : Oliver Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 190952137X

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Strengthening Death Penalty Standards by Oliver Robertson Pdf

Author : Ernest Van den Haag,John Phillips Conrad
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781489927873

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The Death Penalty by Ernest Van den Haag,John Phillips Conrad Pdf

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.

Author : Petra Schmidt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004124217

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Capital Punishment in Japan by Petra Schmidt Pdf

This book provides an overview of capital punishment in Japan in a legal, historical, social, cultural and political context. It provides new insights into the system, challenges traditional views and arguments and seeks the real reasons behind the retention of capital punishment in Japan.

Author : Matthew H. Kramer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199642182

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The Ethics of Capital Punishment by Matthew H. Kramer Pdf

Taking a fresh look at a central controversy in criminal law theory, The Ethics of Capital Punishment presents a rationale for the death penalty grounded in a theory of the nature of evil and the nature of defilement. Original, unsettling, and deeply controversial, it will be an essential reference point for future debates on the subject.

Author : Lewis Lyons
Publisher : Lyons Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1592280285

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The History of Punishment by Lewis Lyons Pdf

All sorts of punishment from all sorts of time and place.

Author : Luis Arroyo Zapatero,William Schabas,Kanako Takayama,Marta Muñoz de Morales,Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha,uclm
Publisher : Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla La Mancha
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9788490441138

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Death Penalty: A Cruel and Inhuman Punishment by Luis Arroyo Zapatero,William Schabas,Kanako Takayama,Marta Muñoz de Morales,Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha,uclm Pdf

Death penalty: A cruel and inhuman punishment is an academic contribution by Academics for abolition aimed at fostering the debate launched by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution 62/149 on 18 December 2007, calling for a worldwide moratorium on executions by 2015, and continued by the upcoming review process of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG). It is mainly a compilation of papers written by the speakers at the Seminar “Against cruel and inhuman punishment and death penalty”, which took place at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, in Madrid, on 9 June 2013, on the eve of the 5th World Congress against the death penalty. The book deals with current issues of the process towards abolition as the lack of evidence about the deterrence effect of death penalty and its consideration as a cruel and inhuman punishment. Together with the editors, the contribution includes studies, among others, of H.J. Albrecht, Gabrio Forti, Roger Hood, Salim Himnat and Sergio García Ramírez. The Academic International Network against the Death Penalty (REPECAP) dedicates this book to the International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICDP) chaired by Federico Mayor Zaragoza.

Author : Cesare Bonesana
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781425029265

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Of Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Bonesana Pdf