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Consensual same-sex conduct is a crime in 38 African countries. The media in those countries are very much in cahoots with their rulers. But they’re getting their comeuppance from Twitter.
When drug companies refused to ship chemicals to the US for use in lethal injections it led to several botched executions, reopening the debate over the death penalty.
For an unlucky few, an execution can mean the death of their own hopes of overturning a wrongful conviction.
As Australia’s special envoy for human rights, Philip Ruddock will have the chance to change the world instead of listening to other people make suggestions about how it might be done.
Whether Indonesia’s unofficial ‘moratorium’ on the death penalty is genuine or temporary, this is an advocacy moment for Australia to seize.
50 years after the UK first experimented with removing the death penalty for murder, one name has become our bridge to the hangman’s noose.
Beyond general expressions of “opposition” to capital punishment, Australia did not emphasise specific human rights principles in its lobbying of Indonesia to spare Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.
Capital punishment is unfairly imposed, innocent people are regularly condemned and it is patently ineffective in deterring crime. So why to states retain the death penalty?
Not only does capital punishment not deter crime but it’s more expensive than keeping a convicted murderer in prison for life.
The US Supreme Court is bitterly divided over the death penalty. One reason for that is all the convictions based on coerced confessions
Abolition has become a political football – and many politicians see the advantage of supporting it.
More than 150 people have been released from death rows around the US after having their wrongful convictions overturned. Most continue to face social stigma and unemployment.
As with most aspects of criminal justice in sub-Saharan Africa, the death penalty as it currently exists in law is a colonial import. Criminal justice before the modern era was a private matter.
Why do so many people support capital punishment?
India has only hanged four criminals since 2003. But given the state is founded on principles of non-violence, it’s surprising they executed any of them.
What are the arguments for and against the death penalty and do they stand up to examination?
SCOTUS effectively continued the practice of lethal injection with its ruling. But is lethal injection really as humane as we think?
In returning Paul Grigson to Jakarta so swiftly, the Australian government proved that its choice to put its relationship with Indonesia at risk for short-term political opportunism was pointless.
The West has stood by and watched as democracy was stifled in Egypt. It will reap the whirlwind.
Top contributors
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Director of the University of Oxford Death Penalty Research Unit, Centre for Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
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Professor, Director of the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research, Birkbeck, University of London, Birkbeck, University of London
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Senior Lecturer, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University
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Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, Death Penalty Project and Visiting Professor of Practice, University of Oxford
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Associate Lecturer, School of Government, Universitas Jendral Achmad Yani
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Term Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology Law and Society, George Mason University
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Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Adjunct Professor, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
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Associate Professor of History, Emory University
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Dean of the Faculty of Law, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya
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Director, La Trobe Centre for Global Security, and Professor of International Relations, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights, Universitas Gadjah Mada