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While most other Pacific nations take a strong abolitionist stances on the death penalty, PNG is moving in the opposite direction – despite not having executed any prisoners since 1954.
The Malawi court’s decision provides a roadmap for future challenges to the death penalty in other southern African countries.
From his positions at the United Nations, Professor Heyns made a huge impact on the protection of the right to life and the right of peaceful assembly.
The most commonly used justification for capital punishment is not actually supported by evidence.
Victim impact statements give survivors a voice in the criminal justice process. But research shows their wrenching personal testimonies may not bring closure and can add racial bias into sentencing.
The Justice Department has approved alternatives to lethal injections for federal executions. But no method of capital punishment has been without gruesome stories of what went wrong.
Negotiations on the recent defence pact between the two nations had stalled over the issue of the death penalty, which Japan has and Australia opposes.
Canadians should know more about how our government co-operates with other countries in criminal cases. Are we unwittingly risking the lives or rights of those accused of crimes?
The promised benefits of lethal injection – a quick, painless death – have never come true. There’s not even agreement about which drugs are best for executions.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons recently opened a unit for people suffering dementia. But is incarceration a ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment for those who don’t understand why they are behind bars?
The racist legacy of the American death penalty.
Should all-white juries be permitted in death penalty cases involving black defendants?
Many recent executions in the US by lethal injections have resulted in prolonged suffering before death. A historian asks: Could the guillotine be a preferable method?
Sir Alan Herbert’s 1919 novel was based on a true story and highlighted the injustice of executing shell-shocked soldiers for cowardice.
A law professor from the University of California, Hastings considers why a moratorium in California could be influential.
The National Death Penalty Archive collects documents and paraphernalia behind the thousands of executions that have taken place on American soil.
Now is the time to give China the chance to show that while the Chinese justice system can mete out punishment, it can also exercise compassion and could spare the life of a Canadian drug smuggler.
Research shows the deterrent effect of capital punishment is a myth.
Fifty-nine years ago, Steven Truscott, wrongfully convicted for the murder of a schoolmate, was sentenced to hang. He was only 14 years old. Why did it take so long for justice to catch up with him?
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Director of the University of Oxford Death Penalty Research Unit, Centre for Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
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Professor, Director of the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research, Birkbeck, University of London, Birkbeck, University of London
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Senior Lecturer, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University
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Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, Death Penalty Project and Visiting Professor of Practice, University of Oxford
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Associate Lecturer, School of Government, Universitas Jendral Achmad Yani
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Term Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology Law and Society, George Mason University
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Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Adjunct Professor, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
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Associate Professor of History, Emory University
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Dean of the Faculty of Law, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya
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Director, La Trobe Centre for Global Security, and Professor of International Relations, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights, Universitas Gadjah Mada