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SCOTUS effectively continued the practice of lethal injection with its ruling. But is lethal injection really as humane as we think?
Whatever you think of capital punishment, if your police force helps convict people of capital crimes, you are complicit to some degree.
Indonesians have long felt that Australia lacks respect for their nation’s sovereignty, but Indonesia’s status as a rising power adds to the urgency of recalibrating our approach to the relationship.
Australians are the ones who suffer when consular support is weakened overseas.
In condemning Indonesia’s execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, Australia has relied on the same human rights obligations that it rejects when applied to asylum seekers.
Indonesia’s most distinguished practising human rights lawyer, Mulya Lubis, is central to continuing efforts in Indonesia to abolish the death penalty.
Australia’s politicians were unable to make the most persuasive argument for clemency for Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran because Australia is also a combatant in the misguided war on drugs.
The search for clean and painless executions may have failed, raising questions about the constitutionality of capital punishment.
At 48%, the proportion who agree that “for some crimes, the death penalty is the most appropriate sentence” is the lowest ever recorded.
The case seemed to end on the first day of the trial when the lawyer for the accused declared Dzhokhar Tsarnaev did plant one of the bombs. So what is really at stake here?
Top contributors
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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
