Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia: Human Rights, Politics and Public Opinion [Hardcover]

This volume explores the continued use of capital punishment in Asia and the reasons behind its retention. Various contributions offer insights into the politics, practice and public opinion of Asian capital punishmentCapital punishment has for many years now been the subject of controversy and moral debate. With the strengthening focus worldwide on human rights there has been a movement to abolish this form of punishment or in the least, uphold the minimum international law standards aimed at protecting the rights of those facing capital punishment.This book identifies Asia as being particularly unaffected by these international pressures. The essays contained in this volume provide an analysis of changes in the scope and application of the death penalty in Asian countries, and explain in what ways they fail to meet these international law standards.Situating Asia in an International Human Rights Context1. State Execution: Is Asia Different and Why?,Franklin E Zimring2. The Impact and Importance of International Human Rights Standards: Asia in World Perspective,Saul Lehrfreund3. Examining China's Response to the Global Campaign against the Death Penalty,Michelle Miao4. The Role of National Human Rights Institutions in Abolishing Capital Punishment: A Critical Evaluation,YSR Murthy5. The Role of Abolitionist Nations in stopping the use of the Death Penalty in Asia: The Case of Australia,Sam GarkaweThe Progress So Far6. Recent Reforms and Prospects in China,Liu Renwen7. Abolition of the Death Penalty in India: Constitutional and Human Rights Dimensions,Amit Bindal and C Raj Kumar8. Singapore's Death Penalty: The Beginning of the End?,Michael Hor9. Progress and Problems in Japanese Capital Punishment,David T JohnsonPublic Opinion and Death Penalty Reform10. Capital Punishment Reform, Public Opinion, and Penal Elitism in the People's Republc+