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Language: en
Pages: 212
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: UN
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Language: en
Pages: 544
Pages: 544
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-02-02 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Today, two-thirds of the world's nations have abolished the death penalty, either officially or in practice, due mainly to the campaign to end state executions
Language: en
Pages: 30
Pages: 30
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher:
It is not immediately apparent why a state would willingly abolish the death penalty and thereby lose a powerful political instrument. The fact that some states
Language: en
Pages: 196
Pages: 196
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-01 - Publisher: State University of New York Press
Despite public support for the death penalty, a remarkable number of countries in different parts of the world have banned capital punishment in all its forms,