Format:
VIII, 182 S.
ISBN:
9781472423252
,
9781472423269
,
9781472423276
Series Statement:
Law, justice and power
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Introduction : the mandatory death penalty in historical and comparative perspectiveAn excessive and arbitrary punishment : the mandatory death penalty and discretion in the United States of America -- Restricting the death penalty to the rarest of the rare : the origins of a discretionary death penalty in India and Bangladesh -- A successful experiment : the abolition of the mandatory death penalty in the Commonwealth Caribbean -- The holdouts : the survival of the mandatory death penalty in Malaysia and Singapore -- The new frontier : constitutional challenges to the mandatory death penalty in Sub-Saharan Africa -- The doctrine of extenuating circumstances : the rise of judicial sentencing discretion in Southern Africa -- Conclusion : after the mandatory death penalty.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472423269
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472423276
Additional Edition:
Online-Ausg. Novak, Andrew The global decline of the mandatory death penalty Farnham [u.a.] : Ashgate, 2014 ISBN 9781472423252
Language:
English
Keywords:
Todesstrafe
;
Richter
;
Ermessen
;
Verfassungsrecht
;
Rechtsreform
;
Internationaler Vergleich
;
Todesstrafe
;
Rechtsreform
;
Verfassungsrecht