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Author : John Bessler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108845571
This book details how capital punishment violates universal human rights and traces the evolution of the world's understanding of torture.
Author : John D. Bessler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 1108970028
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 : Hugo Adam Bedau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 0914031015
Author : Christian Tomuschat,Evelyne Lagrange,Stefan Oeter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004189652
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.
Author : Amnesty International
Publisher : New York, NY : Amnesty International USA
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002533003
Risks to the innocent
Author : Ivan Šimonović
Publisher : UN
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9211542154
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.
Author : Dirk van Zyl Smit,Catherine Appleton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509902224
In many jurisdictions today, life imprisonment is the most severe penalty that can be imposed. Despite this, it is a relatively under-researched form of punishment and no meaningful attempt has been made to understand its full human rights implications. This important collection fills that gap by addressing these two key questions: what is life imprisonment and what human rights are relevant to it? These questions are explored from the perspective of a range of jurisdictions, in essays that draw on both empirical and doctrinal research. Under the editorship of two leading scholars in the field, this innovative and important work will be a landmark publication in the field of penal studies and human rights.
Author : James Anson Farrer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025129896
Author : Ernest Van den Haag,John Phillips Conrad
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781489927873
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 : Amnesty International
Publisher : Conran Octopus
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106007990986
Author : David John Harris,Stephen Livingstone
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0198265522
This book, which can be used as a text for teaching purposes, gives a fascinating, and authoritative treatment both the rights protected by the Inter-American system and of the way in which its institutions work. An important part of the book is a thorough, article by article account of the guarantee in the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man and in the American Convention on Human Rights of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights in the light of the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and of the Commission's many country reports on the human rights situation in particular states. There are also chapters on the rights of indigenous peoples, amnesty laws and states of emergencies. The evolution and current methods of work of the Commission and the Court are set out at length and their achievements are critically assessed. The role of non-governmental organisations is also examined in this context. The book will be invaluable to all those interested in the protection of human rights in the Americas and international human rights law generally.
Author : Hans Toch,James R. Acker,Vincent Martin Bonventre
Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1433829002
PROSE Award Finalist for Psychology This book synthesizes scholarly reflections with personal accounts from prison administrators and inmates to show the harsh reality of life on death row.
Author : Andrew Novak
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030285463
This book analyzes the role of strategic human rights litigation in the dissemination and migration of transnational constitutional norms and provides a detailed analysis of how transnational human rights advocates and their local partners have used international and foreign law to promote abolition of the death penalty and decriminalization of homosexuality. The “sharing” of human rights jurisprudence among judges across legal systems is currently spreading emerging norms among domestic courts and contributing to the evolution of international law. While prior studies have focused on international and foreign citations in judicial decisions, this global migration of constitutional norms is driven not by judges but by legal advocates themselves, who cite and apply international and foreign law in their pleadings in pursuit of a specific human rights agenda. Local and transnational legal advocates form partnerships and networks that transmit legal strategy and comparative doctrine, taking advantage of similarities in postcolonial legal and constitutional frameworks. Using examples such as the abolition of the death penalty and decriminalization of same-sex relations, this book traces the transnational networks of human rights lawyers and advocacy groups who engage in constitutional litigation before domestic and supranational tribunals in order to embed international human rights norms in local contexts. In turn, domestic human rights litigation influences the evolution of international law to reflect state practice in a mutually reinforcing process. Accordingly, international and foreign legal citations offer transnational human rights advocates powerful tools for legal reform.
Author : Alice M. Miller,Mindy Jane Roseman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812295757
Over the past two decades, human rights as legal doctrine and practice has shifted its engagement with criminal law from a near exclusive condemnation of it as a source of harm toward increasingly invoking it as a necessary remedy for abuses. These shifts are most visible in the context of sexuality, reproduction, and gender. Criminal law appears in modern states as a tool for societies to define forbidden acts (crimes) and prescribe punishments. It authorizes the state to use force as an aspect of expressing and establishing norms—societal expectations for acceptable behavior which when breached permit individuals to be excluded and stigmatized as unfit for inclusion. But the core principles of human rights oppose exclusion and stigma and embrace the equality and dignity of all. Therefore there is an insuperable tension when human rights actors invoke criminal law to protect and vindicate human rights violations. Beyond Virtue and Vice examines the ways in which recourse to the criminal law features in work by human rights advocates regarding sexuality, gender, and reproduction and presents a framework for considering if, when, and under what conditions, recourse to criminal law is compatible with human rights. Contributors from a wide range of disciplinary fields and geographic locations offer historical and contemporary perspectives, doctrinal cautionary tales, and close readings of advocacy campaigns on the use of criminal law in cases involving abortion and reproductive rights, HIV/AIDS, sex work and prostitution law, human trafficking, sexual violence across genders, child rights and adolescent sexuality, and LGBT issues. The volume offers specific values and approaches of possible use to advocates, activists, policy makers, legislators, scholars, and students in their efforts to craft dialogue and engagement to move beyond state practices that compromise human rights in the name of restraining vice and extolling virtue. Contributors: Aziza Ahmed, Widney Brown, Sealing Cheng, Sonia Corrêa, Joanna N. Erdman, Janet Halley, Alli Jernow, Maria Lucia Karam, Ae-Ryung Kim, Scott Long, Vrinda Marwah, Alice M. Miller, Geetanijali Misra, Rasha Moumneh, Wanja Muguongo, Oliver Phillips, Zain Rizvi, Mindy Jane Roseman, Esteban Restrepo Saldarriaga, Tara Zivkovic.
Author : Oliver Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 190952137X