While some opposition is to be expected, indications are that the general Zimbabwean public will take the government’s lead on abolition.
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The court covered itself in glory in the first 15 years, but its performance has been patchy since then, coinciding with Jacob Zuma’s presidency.
The death in February of the man who abolished the death penalty inspired a national homage in France. Yet, Robert Badinter remains little known outside of the country.
A democracy must respect the right to life of all its citizens.
Stigmatised people living with HIV often suffer from fear, depression and abuse. It’s sometimes easier to stop a treatment regime than risk being ostracised or assaulted by the community.
Ghana is a signatory to several international conventions that oblige it to guarantee the right to life.
Despite support for clemency from Oklahoma’s top prosecutor, a death row inmate appears set to die on May 18.
This major survey on social trends shows how far the UK has come in terms of attitudes towards homosexuality, casual sex and divorce. Views on the death penalty remain conservative, however.
Research finds that the threat of being sentenced to death has no bearing on how people contemplate violent crime.
South Carolina has had trouble securing enough lethal injection drugs for executions. So it has turned to an old form of killing: the firing squad, last used in the Civil War.
Criminal trials in these courts often occur behind closed doors presided over by clerics, and there’s often no evidence beyond a confession extracted by means of torture.
Iran may refuse entry to UN human rights inspectors following alleged abuses connected to the recent wave of protests.
The decision is likely to be relied on by courts to order the Department of Correctional Services to grant offenders parole.
Alabama has paused the carrying out of death sentences after a series of cases in which the state struggled with the procedure.
Kenya has not carried out the death penalty since 1987, but executions could resume while the law remains on the books.
In 1972, justices handed down a decision that attacked discriminatory and capricious death sentences. But it left the door ajar for states to continue the practice.
An expert on grief says give people space and time to come to terms with loss and don’t expect them to need – or want – ‘closure.’
Some reasons people oppose abortion seem to be at odds with other positions they hold. Evolutionary social science points to a surprising motivation for anti-abortion attitudes.
Referenda may well have a place in the country’s democracy, but if the form of an electoral system can be referred to a referendum, why not capital punishment, abortion or LGBT rights?
People make decisions throughout their lives about their health. But when they are terminally ill they are not allowed to decide when they want to die.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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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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Senior Lecturer, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor, Director of Eleos Justice, Faculty of Law, Monash University
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Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Death Penalty Project, University of Oxford
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Associate Lecturer, School of Government, Universitas Jendral Achmad Yani
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Term Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology Law and Society, George Mason University
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Director, La Trobe Asia, and Professor of International Relations, La Trobe University
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Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, The University of Melbourne
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Dean of the Faculty of Law, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya
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Adjunct Professor, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
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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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Secretary General of ALMI and Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights, Universitas Gadjah Mada
