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The Elgar Companion to Capital Punishment and Society

Author: Benjamin Fleury-Steiner
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781803929149
Published In: September 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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The Elgar Companion to Capital Punishment and Society presents a multidisciplinary overview of capital punishment’s influences, processes and outcomes across society. A global range of philosophers, social scientists, legal experts, political theorists and historians critically analyse the trajectory of the death penalty in both retentionist and abolitionist countries, underscoring how state killing remains a crucial issue worldwide.

The volume lays out the philosophical justifications for and against capital punishment, before examining the practicalities of the death penalty, including the roles of numerous legal actors before, during, and after a capital trial. Chapters assess the outcomes of the death penalty, documenting racial biases and erroneous sentences, as well as exploring exonerations and Life Without Parole. Finally, expert scholars compare the current status of capital punishment in 12 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, Central America and the Middle East, presenting nuanced perspectives on the topic from different cultural and political viewpoints.

This comprehensive Companion is a vital resource for students and scholars of criminology, criminal law and justice, law and society, and legal history. The discussions on cutting-edge legal questions surrounding the death penalty will also appeal to defence lawyers, non-governmental organisations, and advocates working in the field.

Introduction to the Elgar Companion to Capital Punishment and Society 1

Benjamin Fleury-Steiner and Austin Sarat

PART I. INFLUENCES

The case against the American death penalty 7

Evan Mandery

The case for capital punishment 17

Joseph M. Bessette and Edward Feser

The cultural rhetoric of capital punishment in Colonial America through the early Republic, 1641–1792 31

John Cyril Barton

Public opinion and capital punishment in the United States 48

Cheryl Lero Jonson, William Andrew Stadler and Brooke Miller Gialopsos

Capital punishment and the constitution 62

Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker

The death penalty as an international human rights concern: developments and challenges 73

Sangmin Bae

PART II. PROCESSES

Capital trials: individualized sentences and generalized biases 88

Sarah Beth Kaufman

Capital defense attorneys 102

Maya Pagni Barak and Jon B. Gould

10.

Juries in capital cases 114

Valerie Hans and Amelia Hritz

11.

Appellate and post-conviction remedies in death cases 127

David R. Dow

12.

Six US execution methods and the disastrous quest for humaneness 137

Deborah W. Denno

PART III. OUTCOMES

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Race and the death penalty 159

Diann Rust-Tierney, Barbara O’Brien and Catherine M. Grosso

14.

Wrong-person error in capital cases 171

James S. Liebman

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Death row exonerations: a scoping review 190

Amy Shlosberg, Valli Rajah, Michael Horahan and Júlia Malheiros

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Comparing life without parole to the death penalty 208

Christopher Seeds

PART IV COMPARISONS: AFRICA, ASIA, EUROPE, MEXICO, AND THE MIDDLE EAST

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The Myth of the Death Penalty in Egypt: Can It Ever Be Justified? 222

Mohamed ‘Arafa

18.

The death penalty in Botswana and Zimbabwe: a comparative historical analysis 235

Andrew Novak

19.

The death penalty in the People’s Republic of China 249

Bin Liang and Jinzhou Wang

20.

Capital punishment in Japan 265

Viviana Andreescu

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Capital punishment in the Philippines 275

David T. Johnson

22.

Capital punishment in Vietnam 287

Hai Thanh Luong

23.

Capital punishment in Great Britain 293

Lizzie Seal

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Capital punishment in Germany 307

Birte Christ

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The death penalty in Poland and in Central and Eastern Europe 318

Agata Fijalkowski

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Capital punishment in Ireland 331

David M. Doyle and Lynsey Black

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The history of the death penalty and its abolition in Mexico 342

Patrick Timmons

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The death penalty in Iran 356

William Schabas

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The shadow of the death penalty in Israel: constructing enemies, citizens, and victims 368

Smadar Ben-Natan

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