The Death Penalty and U.S. Diplomacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Death Penalty and U.S. Diplomacy write by Wesley Kendall. This book was released on 2013-09-12. The Death Penalty and U.S. Diplomacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This unique book examines how U.S. domestic policy regarding the death penalty has been influenced by international pressures, in particular, by foreign nations and international organizations. International pressure has mounted against America’s use of the death penalty, straining diplomatic ties. U.S. policies that endorse the execution of juveniles, the mentally handicapped, and disadvantaged foreign nationals have been recognized by allied nations and international organizations as human rights abuses and violation of international law. Further, organizations such as the United Nations and Amnesty International have issued scathing reports revealing racial bias and fundamental procedural flaws in almost every phase of the judicial process in capital cases. International pressures directed at governmental entities, in particular specific states such as Texas, can have a profound impact on governmental operational efficiency and public opinion and effectively render capital punishment cost-prohibitive from a public policy standpoint. The Death Penalty and U.S. Diplomacy analyzes the institutional response to specific forms of foreign intervention and influence such as consular intervention, international litigation, and extradition negotiation. This is documented through case studies such as how a judge in Texas v. Green turned to a comparative Delaware case that relied on the Vienna Convention to remove the death penalty as possible punishment, and how Mexico pressured the White House in two separate cases. By demonstrating that foreign actors have done much to constrain the United States to abandon its policies of executing foreigners, as well as its own citizens, the book explores the foreign dimensions of the U.S. death penalty while advancing the debate surrounding the viability of this controversial policy.
An American Dilemma
An American Dilemma - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An American Dilemma write by M. Atwell. This book was released on 2015-06-16. An American Dilemma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An American Dilemma examines the issue of capital punishment in the United States as it conflicts with the nation's obligations under the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. In a number of high profile cases, foreign nationals have been executed after being denied their rights under the Vienna Convention. The International Court of Justice has ruled against the United States, but individual states have chosen to defy international law. The Supreme Court has not resolved the question of legal remedies for such breaches.
Foreigners on America's Death Rows
Foreigners on America's Death Rows - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foreigners on America's Death Rows write by John Quigley. This book was released on 2018-05-03. Foreigners on America's Death Rows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Capital cases involving foreigners as defendants are a serious source of contention between the United States and foreign governments. By treaty, foreigner defendants must be informed upon arrest that they may contact a consul of their home country for assistance, yet police and judges in the United States are lax in complying. Foreigners on America's Death Row investigates the arbitrary way United States police departments, courts, and the Department of State implement well-established rights of foreigners arrested in the US. Foreign governments have taken the United States into international courts, which have ruled that the US must enforce the treaty. The United States has ignored these rulings. As a result, foreigners continue to be executed after a legal process that their home governments justifiably find to be flawed. When one country ignores the treaty rights of another as well as the decisions of international courts, the established order of international relations is threatened.
Against the Death Penalty
Against the Death Penalty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Against the Death Penalty write by Jon Yorke. This book was released on 2008. Against the Death Penalty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited volume brings together leading scholars on the death penalty within international, regional and municipal law. It considers the intrinsic elements of both the promotion and demise of the punishment around the world, and provides analysis which contributes to the evolving abolitionist discourse.
The Politics of the Death Penalty in Countries in Transition
The Politics of the Death Penalty in Countries in Transition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of the Death Penalty in Countries in Transition write by Madoka Futamura. This book was released on 2013-08-15. The Politics of the Death Penalty in Countries in Transition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The increase in the number of countries that have abolished the death penalty since the end of the Second World War shows a steady trend towards worldwide abolition of capital punishment. This book focuses on the political and legal issues raised by the death penalty in "countries in transition", understood as countries that have transitioned or are transitioning from conflict to peace, or from authoritarianism to democracy. In such countries, the politics that surround retaining or abolishing the death penalty are embedded in complex state-building processes. In this context, Madoka Futamura and Nadia Bernaz bring together the work of leading researchers of international law, human rights, transitional justice, and international politics in order to explore the social, political and legal factors that shape decisions on the death penalty, whether this leads to its abolition, reinstatement or perpetuation. Covering a diverse range of transitional processes in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, The Politics of the Death Penalty in Countries in Transition offers a broad evaluation of countries whose death penalty policies have rarely been studied. The book would be useful to human rights researchers and international lawyers, in demonstrating how transition and transformation, ‘provide the catalyst for several of interrelated developments of which one is the reduction and elimination of capital punishment’.
