Survey shows Zimbabwean policy makers need not fear a public backlash if they choose to abolition of the death penalty.
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Kenya’s death penalty proposal is not the quick fix solution to curb wildlife poaching.
The 1995 Tokyo sarin attack helped make Japanese criminal justice dramatically more punitive.
Singapore claims to have nearly eliminated drug use and crime thanks to capital punishment - but the data tells a very different story.
Teens’ brains develop different skills along a predictable timeline. These milestones should influence the legal age boundaries for voting, buying guns and being put to death.
Nevada plans to use a new drug protocol for executing Scott Dozier, who murdered a 22-year-old. A scholar explains why this is problematic.
In the Western world, the U.S. is one of only one of two countries with capital punishment, and support remains strongest in the ‘Bible Belt’. Here’s a look at the historic arguments within Christian communities over the death penalty.
Trump’s promise to appoint conservatives to the Supreme Court could mean the fate of the death penalty rests in the court of public opinion.
Most people who see Myuran Sukumaran: Another Day in Paradise, opening today as part of the Sydney Festival, will already have a strong opinion on the artist and his death – but a few may have their minds changed.
Shahram Amiri is one of 250 people executed this year despite President Rouhani’s efforts to improve his country’s human right’s record.
Advocacy efforts are easier to dismiss when they are seen to reflect vested interests more than principled foundations.
Capital punishment is unfairly imposed, innocent people are regularly condemned and it is patently ineffective in deterring crime. So why to states retain the death penalty?
Not only does capital punishment not deter crime but it’s more expensive than keeping a convicted murderer in prison for life.
People found out about crime and punishment in that most spectacular era of public executions, the Renaissance, through melody.
The US Supreme Court is bitterly divided over the death penalty. One reason for that is all the convictions based on coerced confessions
Abolition has become a political football – and many politicians see the advantage of supporting it.
More than 150 people have been released from death rows around the US after having their wrongful convictions overturned. Most continue to face social stigma and unemployment.
As with most aspects of criminal justice in sub-Saharan Africa, the death penalty as it currently exists in law is a colonial import. Criminal justice before the modern era was a private matter.
Why do so many people support capital punishment?
India has only hanged four criminals since 2003. But given the state is founded on principles of non-violence, it’s surprising they executed any of them.
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Associate Professor, Director of Eleos Justice, Faculty of Law, Monash University
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Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Assistant Professor of History, Emory University
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Senior Lecturer, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University
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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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Term Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology Law and Society, George Mason University
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Professor of Law, University of Virginia
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Research Professor of Law, Suffolk University
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Senior Research Director (Social Attitudes), ScotCen Social Research
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Professor in the Philosophy Department, University of Sheffield
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Hansen Lecturer in History, The University of Melbourne
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C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law, Stanford University
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Associate Professor of Political Theory, UCL
