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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Sources of Information | |
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| Plan of the Book | |
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| The Approach Taken towards Capital Punishment | |
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| The Abolitionist Movement: Progress and Prospects | |
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| The Pace of Abolition | |
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| Generating the New Wave of Abolition | |
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| What Prospects for International Acceptance or Rejection of Capital Punishment? | |
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| In the Vanguard of Abolition | |
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| Western Europe and Australasia: Death Penalty Free Zones | |
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| Eastern Europe: Embracing Abolition | |
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| States of the Former Soviet Union: From Moratoria to Abolition De Jure | |
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| South and Central America: Long-term Supporters of Abolition | |
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| Where Capital Punishment Remains Contested | |
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| The Middle East and North Africa: Cracks in the Bastion? | |
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| Africa South of the Sahara: Resistance to Abolition Crumbling? | |
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| Asia and the Pacific: Opening up the Issue | |
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| The Caribbean: Colonial Legacies | |
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| North America: Faltering Support | |
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| The Scope of Capital Punishment in Law | |
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| Offences Punishable By Death | |
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| The Scale of Death Sentences and Executions | |
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| The Death Penalty in Reality: The Process of Execution and the Death Row Experience | |
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| Executing those found to be Guilty | |
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| Under Sentence of Death | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Excluding the Vulnerable from Capital Punishment | |
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| Juvenile Defendants | |
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| The Question of the Aged | |
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| The Exemption of Pregnant Women | |
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| The Status of the Mentally Retarded | |
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| Protection of the Insane and Severely Mentally Ill | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Protecting the Accused and Ensuring Due Process | |
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| International Standards | |
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| Ensuring a Fair Trial | |
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| The Right to Appeal | |
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| The Right to Seek a Pardon, Clemency, or Commutation of Sentence | |
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| Finality of Judgment: Awaiting the Outcome of Legal Proceedings | |
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| Wrongful Convictions and Innocent Persons Exonerated | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Deciding Who Should Die: Problems of Inequity, Arbitrariness, and Racial Discrimination | |
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| Mandatory or Discretionary? | |
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| Legal Analyses: The American Experience | |
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| Criminological Investigations | |
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| Policy Implications | |
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| The Question of Deterrence | |
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| Reliance on the Deterrent Justification | |
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| Conceptual Issues: The Need for Clarification | |
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| General Deterrence in Context | |
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| Assessing Homicide Trends | |
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| The Comparative Method | |
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| Measuring the Immediate Impact | |
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| The Econometric Model | |
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| Methodological Problems in Measuring the Deterrent Effect | |
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| Implications for Policy | |
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| A Question of Opinion or a Question of Principle? | |
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| Public Opinion and the Politics of Abolition | |
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| The Nature of Public Opinion | |
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| Changing Public Opinion | |
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| Abolition and its Effect on Public Opinion | |
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| The Impact of Victims' Advocates on Support for the Death Penalty | |
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| A Question of Principle | |
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| The Challenge of a Suitable Replacement | |
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| The Nature of the Challenge | |
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| The Range of Alternative Penalties | |
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| The Ascendancy of Life Without Parole in America | |
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| Life Without Hope: The New Challenge to Human Dignity | |
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| Conditions of Confinement | |
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| The Challenge of Sentencing Juveniles Convicted of Murder | |
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| Implications for Policy | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Lists of Retentionist and Abolitionist Countries | |
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| Ratification of International Treaties | |
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| International Instruments | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Cases Cited | |
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| Index | |