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1 Introduction&Roger Hood 1

PART Ⅰ: REGIONAL CONSPECTUS AND ANALYSIS 7

2 The United Nations and Abolition of the Death Penalty&William A. Schabas 9

3 The Evolving Human Rights Discourse of the Council of Europe: Renouncing the Sovereign Right of the Death Penalty&Jon Yorke 43

4 Taking the Death Penalty Debate Further: The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights&Lilian Chenwi 75

5 Challenging the Death Penalty in the Caribbean: Litigation at the Privy Council&Quincy Whitaker 101

PART Ⅱ: PERSPECTIVES AND QUESTIONS FOR RETENTIONIST COUNTRIES 125

6 Constraining America's Death Penalty: The Eighth Amendment and Excessive Punishment&Julian Killingley 127

7 Walking the Eighth Amendment Tightrope: 'Time Served' in the United States Supreme Court&Jane Marriott 159

8 A Crisis of Confidence: Americans' Doubts about the Death Penalty&Richard C. Dieter 187

9 The Death Penalty in China: Towards the Rule of Law&Nicola Macbean 205

10 The Abolitionist Movement in Death Penalty-Friendly Asia: The Cases of South Korea and Taiwan&Sangmin Bae 229

PART Ⅲ: OVERVIEW OF ABOLITION STRATEGIES AND ALTERNATIVES TO THE DEATH PENALTY 247

11 Capital Punishment: A Review and Critique of Abolition Strategies&Peter Hodgkinson, Seema Kandelia and Lina Gyllensten 249

12 A Fate Worse than Death? The Problems with Life Imprisonment as an Alternative to the Death Penalty&Rachael Stokes 281

Index 303

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