The Barbaric Punishment

Abolishing the Death Penalty
Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-90-411-2151-6
Verlag: Wolters Kluwer

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 164 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 416 g

Reihe: The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library

In this volume, Swedish human rights activist and political figure, Hans Göran Franck, examines the administration of the death penalty from an 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 Building upon previously unpublished material and considerable detail drawn from Franck¿s personal experiences, it focuses on both the progressive developments within European countries and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 travelled to numerous countries and met many condemned men and women. Publication of this important volume, which comes a few years after Hans Göran Francks 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Franck, Hans Göran

Schabas, William

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Strafrecht, Internationales Verfahrensrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editor’s Note; Foreword; Introduction by William A. Schabas; The Time is Ripe; Arguments for and Against the Death Penalty; Historical Uses of the Death Penalty; The Death Penalty in International Law; Worldwide Use of the Death Penalty; The Death Penalty in Sweden; The Death Penalty and Democracy; Appendices;

Über Autor(innen)

Co-publication with The Raoul Wallenberg Institute.