1. Capital punishment: improve it or remove it? Peter Hodgkinson = 1
2. International law and the death penalty: reflecting or promoting change? William A. Schabas = 36
3. Doctors and the death penalty - ethics and a cruel punishment Robert Ferris and James Welsh = 63
4. Replacing the death penalty : the vexed issue of alternative sanctions Andrew Coyle = 92
5. Religion and the death penalty in the United States of America: past and present James J. Megivern =116
6. On botched executions Marian J. Borg and Michael L. Radelet = 143
7. Death as a penalty in the Shari'ah M. Cherif Bassiouni = 169
8. Abolishing the death penalty in the United States of America: an analysis of institutional obstacles and future
prospects Hugo Adam Bedau = 186
9. Capital punishment in the United States of America - moratorium efforts and other key developments Ronald J.
Tabak = 208
10. The experiences of Lithuania's journey to abolition Alexsandras Dobryninas = 233
11. The death penalty in South Korea and Japan: 'Asian values' and the debate about capital punishment? Byung-Sun
Cho = 253
12. Georgia - former republic of the USSR - managing abolition Eric Svanidze = 273
13. Capital punishment in the Commonwealth Caribbean - colonial inheritance, colonial remedy? Julian B. Knowles =
282
14. Public opinion and the death penalty William A. Schabas = 309
15. Capital punishment - meeting the needs of the families of the homicide victim and the condemned Peter Hodgkinson
= 332
Index = 359
2. International law and the death penalty: reflecting or promoting change? William A. Schabas = 36
3. Doctors and the death penalty - ethics and a cruel punishment Robert Ferris and James Welsh = 63
4. Replacing the death penalty : the vexed issue of alternative sanctions Andrew Coyle = 92
5. Religion and the death penalty in the United States of America: past and present James J. Megivern =116
6. On botched executions Marian J. Borg and Michael L. Radelet = 143
7. Death as a penalty in the Shari'ah M. Cherif Bassiouni = 169
8. Abolishing the death penalty in the United States of America: an analysis of institutional obstacles and future
prospects Hugo Adam Bedau = 186
9. Capital punishment in the United States of America - moratorium efforts and other key developments Ronald J.
Tabak = 208
10. The experiences of Lithuania's journey to abolition Alexsandras Dobryninas = 233
11. The death penalty in South Korea and Japan: 'Asian values' and the debate about capital punishment? Byung-Sun
Cho = 253
12. Georgia - former republic of the USSR - managing abolition Eric Svanidze = 273
13. Capital punishment in the Commonwealth Caribbean - colonial inheritance, colonial remedy? Julian B. Knowles =
282
14. Public opinion and the death penalty William A. Schabas = 309
15. Capital punishment - meeting the needs of the families of the homicide victim and the condemned Peter Hodgkinson
= 332
Index = 359