Capital Punishment in UK Law
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Capital Punishment
This article reviews the extent to which the movement to abolish capital punishment has been successful and discusses some of the influences which have produced a remarkable increase in the number ...
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‘Capital punishment’
Civil wars show substantial variation in where they are fought. One dimension of this variation is the proximity of fighting to the capital city. While some wars are fought in the periphery, others...
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Capital punishment as moral imperative
Capital punishment plays a contradictory, emotional role in American social and political culture. In particular, the relationship between this punishment and variously situated social actors sugge...
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South Korea's changing capital punishment policy
The most recent executions in South Korea took place in December 1997, when 23 people were executed at short notice on the same day. Similarly, nineteen executions occurred in 1995 and 15 in 1994, ...
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Law, society, and capital punishment in Asia
Students of capital punishment need to study Asia, the site of at least 85 percent and as many as 95 percent of the world's executions. This article explores the var...
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Catholics and capital punishment: Do Pope Francis’s teachings matter in policy preferences?
In the United States, Catholics make up more than 50 million members of the adult population, or about one in five Americans. It is unclear whether their religious affiliation shapes Catholics’ vie...
- Capital punishment and American culture
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Catholics and capital punishment: Do Pope Francis’s teachings matter in policy preferences?
In the United States, Catholics make up more than 50 million members of the adult population, or about one in five Americans. It is unclear whether their religious affiliation shapes Catholics’ vie...
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Capital punishment in China: A populist instrument of social governance
Contrary to the assumption that authoritarian authorities are insensitive to popular demands for justice, the Chinese penal regime has been highly attentive and responsive to public sentiments sinc...
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Migratory dependency and the death penalty: Foreign nationals facing capital punishment in the Gulf
This article focuses on the cases of 664 foreign nationals, the majority of whom are migrant workers, under sentence of death across the Gulf states (including Jordan and Lebanon) between 2016 and ...
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