Confronting capital punishment in Asia : human rights, politics and public opinion / edited by Roger Hood and Surya Deva.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Capital punishment -- Asia.

Human rights -- Asia.

I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. II. 6. 7. 8. 9. III. 10. 11. IV. 12. 13. 14. Situating Asia in an international human rights context

State execution : Is Asia different and why?

The impact and importance of international human rights standards : Asia in world perspective

Examining China's responses to the global campaign against the death penalty

The role of national human rights institutions in abolishing capital punishment : a critical evaluation

The role of abolitionist nations in stopping the use of the dealth penalty in Asia : the case of Australia

The progress so far

Recent reforms and prospects in China

Abolition of the death penalty in India : legal, constitutional, and human rights dimensions

Singapore's death penalty : the beginning of the end?

Progress and problems in Japanese capital punishment

Public opinion and death penalty reform

Capital punishment reform, public opinion, and penal elitism in the People's Republic of China

Challenging the Japanese government's approach to the dealth penalty

The politics of capital punishment in practice

Suspending death in Chinese capital cases : the road to reform

Death penalty in the 'rarest of rare' case : a critique of judicial choice-making

Don't be cruel ... : the 'death row phenomenon' and India's 'delay' jurisprudence.

Detailed table of contents available via online link.

Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780199685776

xiv, 321 p. : ill. ; 24 cm