The Politics of the Death Penalty

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 921-922
Author(s):  
James A. Morone
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Death Row

Sixteen avuncular men stare at the camera in the book's epilogue. One clutches a Bible, two smile, 11 are black or Hispanic, and all are among the 127 men and women released from death row after reformers uncovered evidence of their innocence. Frank Baumgartner, Suzanna De Boef, and Amber Boydstun will be speaking for many readers when they start their book by writing simply, “It has been shocking” (p. xiii). The phenomenon is also a stunning public policy mystery.

Intelligent and Civilized Sentiments

Lethal State ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 111-152
Author(s):  
Seth Kotch
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
State Law ◽  
Death Row ◽  
Death Sentences ◽  
Death Row Inmates ◽  
History Of ◽  
Tangible Result

This chapter tells the history of some of the elements that contributed to the declining use of the death penalty in North Carolina. Journalist Nell Battle Lewis railed against the practice as racist, un-Christian, and barbaric. Paul Green echoed those sentiments as he campaigned to save death row inmates from death. Yet their activism had little tangible result. More significant was a change in state law that allowed juries to formally recommend mercy following a conviction, meaning that judges were no longer required to deliver mandatory death sentences. The end of the mandatory death sentences ended executions, which ceased in 1961 and would not resume until 1984.

Introduction: Six Paradigmatic Cases

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Daniel Pascoe
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Death Row ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Human Interest ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Set Up

The function of the Introduction is to set up the puzzle that the book will solve: why Thailand grants clemency to so many death row prisoners (95 per cent or more), why Singapore grants clemency to so few (0.6 per cent), and why Indonesia and Malaysia fall at points somewhere in between. The Introduction briefly describes the origins of this research project, states why it is necessary and important to compare death penalty clemency among these four jurisdictions, and ends with six short vignettes of paradigmatic cases symbolizing Southeast Asian clemency practice since 1991. These are the cases of Tong Chieng Mun in Singapore (an eighteen-year-old female rejected for clemency and executed in 1995); fishermen Leung Chi Fai, Ng Shun Wa, and Leung Kam Chuen in Thailand (each granted royal pardon in 2013); Kenneth Lee Fook Mun and Michael McAuliffe in Malaysia (providing examples of prisoners granted and denied clemency, respectively); and finally Asep Suryaman and Rodrigo Gularte in Indonesia (likewise providing examples of contrasting outcomes). These six vignettes are an important means of introducing the reader to the legal and political issues involved in death penalty clemency, through human interest stories representative of each state’s recent practice.

China’s Youth in NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training): Evidence from a National Survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 688 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-189
Author(s):  
Yi Yang
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Multilevel Logistic Regression ◽  
Protective Effects ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Force Dynamics ◽  
Female Migrants

This study aims to understand the prevalence and characteristics of individuals aged 16 to 35 who are not in education, employment, or training (NEET) and the risk factors associated with being in NEET in China. The analysis uses the 2012 China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey to show that the NEET rate was 8 percent during the study period. Multilevel logistic regression indicates that women were more likely to be in NEET. Married women and female migrants had significantly higher risks of being in NEET, with migration having opposite effects for men and women. Education had protective effects against being in NEET, especially for women. Age had a nonlinear effect, with individuals aged 22 to 25 at the highest risk of being in NEET. I discuss implications for public policy and directions for future studies on NEET in China.

The Pluralist Constellation

1995 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Parens
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Research Institute

I work at a research institute where the staff spends its time thinking about ethical issues that arise with progress in medicine, the life sciences, and technology. After such thinking, we make public policy recommendations. We pride ourselves in the diversity of our staff: there is a doctor, a lawyer, a linguistic anthropologist, a political scientist, a theologian, some philosophers, and so on. Both men and women do research and we are religiously diverse: Catholics, Jews, Protestants, and atheists

PREROGATIVE AND PRECEDENT: THE PRIVY COUNCIL ON DEATH ROW

2001 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-58
Author(s):  
Ivan Hare
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
Due Process ◽  
Attorney General ◽  
Privy Council ◽  
Death Row ◽  
Difficult Position ◽  
Due Process Rights

AS a result of previous appeals to the Privy Council from death row, many Caribbean States are in a difficult position. If they proceed to execution before the applicant has exhausted all possible avenues for seeking clemency, they may violate due process rights; if they delay the death penalty for too long, execution will constitute inhuman treatment. The latest and most significant of the recent decisions is Lewis & others v. Attorney-General of Jamaica [2000] 3 W.L.R. 1785.

scholarly journals FUNGSI LEMBAGA PEMASYARAKATAN SEBAGAI TEMPAT UNTUK MELAKSANAKAN PEMBINAAN DAN PELAYANAN TERPIDANA MATI SEBELUM DIEKSEKUSI

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Budiyono Budiyono
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Death Row ◽  
Child Socialization ◽  
Physical Care

Penitentiary was a place to conduct coaching Educate Prisoners and Child Socialization. There are pro-death penalty views (Retensionist) and cons of death penalty (abolitionist) on the existence of death penalty and execution. This issue is causing problems from the aspect of regulation that is the basis of service provision on death row since capital punishment on all the services there are no specific rules. The problem is the placement and service must be performed by the prisons before the execution on death row, before it is executed on death row man alive who is naturally still have rights that must be protected as a right to physical care and health until the corresponding executable , including also get their rights, as for the rights referred to was referring to the provisions of Article 14 of Act No.12/1995 about Correctional. Kata kunci : Lembaga Pemasyarakatan,  Pidana mati, Peraturan khusus

Restraint, Reaction, and Penal Fantasies: Notes on the Death Penalty in Israel, 1967–2016

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (03) ◽  
pp. 862-888 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Dudai
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Occupied Territories

What role does the death penalty play in contexts of protracted political violence? What does it symbolize for its opponents and proponents in such contexts? Can it survive as a potent topic of political life even without actual executions? Since 1967, the death penalty has been a lawful sanction in Israel's military courts, which have jurisdiction over Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. Though it has never been carried out, it has been intensely debated throughout this period and the topic has retained major political, cultural, and judicial significance. I argue that both sides in these debates use the topic mostly symbolically, rather than as an issue of public policy. For opponents, refraining from using the death penalty has become a symbol of restraint, used in self-legitimation. For proponents, death penalty advocacy serves as what I term a penal fantasy, an outlet for frustration, symbolizing defiance against the image of restraint.

California's Death Penalty Dilemma

1969 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-148
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Spangler
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Death Row ◽  
Court Orders

This article discusses California's legal machinery in capital punishment cases, cites relevant court decisions, and provides tables showing the number of persons on death row and how long they have been awaiting execution. While executions have been stemmed by various court orders, death penalty cases con tinue to arrive on the row. Quick justice or even orderly or systematic justice does not exist in the present administration of capital punishment cases. There are no known solutions to California's present dilemma.

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