Home | Databases | WorldLII | Search | Feedback Edited Legal Collections Data

"Contents" [2019] ELECD 2524; in Steiker, S. Carol; Steiker, M. Jordan (eds), "Comparative Capital Punishment" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) v

Book Title: Comparative Capital Punishment

Editor(s): Steiker, S. Carol; Steiker, M. Jordan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents



List of tables vii
List of contributors viii
Preface xiii

PART I INTRODUCTION

1 Introduction: international perspectives on the death penalty 2
Richard C. Dieter

PART II SUBSTANTIVE LAW

2 Deserving of death: the changing scope of capital offenses in an age of
death penalty decline 30
Delphine Lourtau

3 Deciding who lives and who dies: eligibility for capital punishment
under national and international law 54
Sandra L. Babcock

PART III PROCEDURAL LAW

4 Extradition and non-refoulement 76
Bharat Malkani

5 An unfair fight for justice: legal representation of persons facing the
death penalty 96
Sandra L. Babcock

6 Towards a global theory of capital clemency incidence 116
Daniel Pascoe

PART IV ADMINISTRATION

7 Imposing a `mandatory' death penalty: a practice out of sync with
evolving standards 138
Parvais Jabbar

8 Methods of execution: the American story in comparative perspective 160
Austin Sarat and Keshav Pant

9 Capital punishment at the intersections of discrimination and
disadvantage: the plight of foreign nationals 177
Carolyn Hoyle

v
vi Comparative capital punishment

10 Innocence and the global death penalty 201
Brandon L. Garrett

PART V INSTITUTIONS

11 International law and the abolition of the death penalty 217
William A. Schabas

12 The role of institutions in the norm life cycle: the United Nations and the
anti-capital punishment norm 232
Sangmin Bae

13 Regional institutions and death penalty abolition: comparative
perspectives and their discontents 247
Evi Girling

14 Undoing the British colonial legacy: the judicial reform of the death penalty 272
...