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Yorke, Jon; Nazir, Amna --- "Imagining utopia: the global abolition of the death penalty" [2019] ELECD 2544; in Steiker, S. Carol; Steiker, M. Jordan (eds), "Comparative Capital Punishment" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 341

Book Title: Comparative Capital Punishment

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

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 17

Section Title: Imagining utopia: the global abolition of the death penalty

Author(s): Yorke, Jon; Nazir, Amna

Number of pages: 30

Abstract/Description:

This chapter places the global movement for the abolition of the death penalty within a reading of utopia. The history of the agonism of the death penalty within dystopia and utopia is presented as a lens to view the struggles which have occurred in the political regions as we witness the global decline of this punishment. What the literature and evolution of human rights demonstrate is that the abolition of the death penalty must be part of an ever-present story-the utopian narrative for a better world.