Comparative Capital Punishment

Edited by Carol S. Steiker, Harvard Law School and Jordan M. Steiker, The University of Texas School of Law, US

• Contents:Preface1. Introduction: international perspectives on the death penaltyRichard C. DieterPart I Substantive Law2. Deserving of death: the changing scope of capital offenses in an age of death penalty declineDelphine Lourtau3. Deciding who lives and who dies: eligibility for capital punishment under national and international law Sandra L. BabcockPart II Procedural Law4. Extradition and non-refoulement Bharat Malkani5. An unfair fight for justice: legal representation of persons facing the death penaltySandra L. Babcock6. Towards a global theory of capital clemency incidence Daniel PascoePart III Administration7. Imposing a ‘mandatory’ death penalty: a practice out of sync with evolving standards Parvais Jabbar8. Methods of execution: the American story in comparative perspective Austin Sarat and Keshav Pant9. Capital punishment at the intersections of discrimination and disadvantage: the plight of foreign nationalsCarolyn Hoyle10. Innocence and the global death penaltyBrandon L. GarrettPart IV Institutions11. International law and the abolition of the death penaltyWilliam Schabas12. The role of institutions in the norm life cycle: the United Nations and the anti–capital punishment norm Sangmin Bae13. Regional institutions and death penalty abolition: comparative perspectives and their discontentsEvi Girling14. Undoing the British colonial legacy: the judicial reform of the death penalty Saul LehrfreundPart V The Future of the Death Penalty15. Reframing the debate on attitudes towards the death penalty Mai Sato16. Pulling states towards abolitionism: the power of acculturation as a socialization mechanism Michelle Miao17. Imagining utopia: the global abolition of the death penaltyJon Yorke and Amna Nazir 18. After abolition: the empirical, jurisprudential and strategic legacy of transnational death penalty litigation Andrew Novak19. Global abolition of capital punishment: contributors, challenges and conundrums Carol S Steiker and Jordan M. SteikerIndex

'The kaleidoscopic contributions to this book provide more comparative insight into capital punishment than any other volume. The Steikers have recruited an all-star team of writers, and they have delivered on everything from methods of execution and miscarriages of justice to capital clemency and international norms. If you want to think better about the death penalty's past, present, and future, read this magnificent book.'--David T. Johnson, University of Hawaii and co-author of The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia