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Jan. 17, 2009
The Death Penalty's Future
Asia is the next frontier in the two-century debate about state execution as a criminal punishment, write David T. Johnson and Franklin E. Zimring in their new book, "The Next Frontier." - Book Excerpt
BOOK EXCPERT
By David T. Johnson and Franklin E. Zimring The debate in the United Nations General Assembly over capital punishment in the fall of 2007 was not a direct clash on the merits of state killing as a criminal punishment but rather a contest between two views of the jurisprudential character of the death penalty in the modern world. Proponents of a non-binding resolution calling for a moratorium on state executions regarded the execution...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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