Death Penalty in UK Law
- Racism and white death penalty support
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A dialogue on death penalty dignity
The concept of ‘dignity’ has always played an important role in the opinions written by members of the US Supreme Court in capital punishment cases. However, the justices have failed to agree about...
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A critique of contemporary death penalty abolitionism
This essay seeks to show what is occluded by contemporary arguments in favor of abolishing the death penalty in the United States. Following an exposition of the arg...
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Global support for the death penalty
The recently released Gallup International 2000 Millennium Survey Poll collected data from individuals residing in 59 countries. The focus of this research was to analyze these data to examine whet...
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The political origins of death penalty exceptionalism
This article focuses on the role played by Mao Zedong in the making of the Chinese communist legal system in general and in the Chinese practice of the death penalty ...
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The death penalty and society in contemporary China
Why are death penalty provisions, convictions and executions so prevalent in China? This article aims to answer this question by way of defining China as a 'state po...
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Women, Drugs and the Death Penalty: Framing Sandiford
This article examines the impact and significance of women subject to capital punishment for drug offences. Women are subject to the death penalty for drug offences; wherever data are available the...
- Public opinion and the death penalty in Japan
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The death penalty and homicide deterrence in Japan
Japanese officials commonly claim that their country retains and uses capital punishment because it deters homicide. Although this claim is contested, few empirical studies have been done to assess...
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The discretionary death penalty for drug couriers in Singapore
In 2012, Singapore amended its Misuse of Drugs to give courts hearing capital drug trafficking cases the discretion to replace the default death penalty with life imprisonment and caning, provided ...
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