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020			_a9781108980159 (ebook)
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050	0	0	_aK5104 _b.B4755 2023
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100	1		_aBessler, John D., _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe death penalty's denial of fundamental human rights : _binternational law, state practice, and the emerging abolitionist norm / _cJohn Bessler, University of Baltimore.
264		1	_aCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : _bCambridge University Press, _c2023.
300			_a1 online resource (xxx, 356 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aASIL studies in international legal theory
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Dec 2022).
505	0		_aThe death penalty : from draconian legal codes to the enlightenment -- The abolitionist movement : state practice, international law, and global progress -- Death threats and the law of torture : the death penalty's inherently cruel and torturous characteristics -- Human dignity and the law's evolution : prohibiting capital punishment through a jus cogens norm -- Conclusion.
520			_aThe Death Penalty's Denial of Fundamental Human Rights details how capital punishment violates universal human rights-to life; to be free from torture and other forms of cruelty; to be treated in a non-arbitrary, non-discriminatory manner; and to dignity. In tracing the evolution of the world's understanding of torture, which now absolutely prohibits physical and psychological torture, the book argues that an immutable characteristic of capital punishment-already outlawed in many countries and American states-is that it makes use of death threats. Mock executions and other credible death threats, in fact, have long been treated as torturous acts. When crime victims are threatened with death and are helpless to prevent their deaths, for example, courts routinely find such threats inflict psychological torture. With simulated executions and non-lethal corporal punishments already prohibited as torturous acts, death sentences and real executions, the book contends, must be classified as torturous acts, too.
650		0	_aCapital punishment.
650		0	_aCapital punishment _zUnited States.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781108845571
830		0	_aASIL studies in international legal theory.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108980159
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