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"All five contemporary practitioners of the death penalty in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam, have performed executions on a regular basis over the past few decades. NGO Amnesty International currently classifies each of t...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2019. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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Clarendon studies in criminology
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| Summary: |
"All five contemporary practitioners of the death penalty in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam, have performed executions on a regular basis over the past few decades. NGO Amnesty International currently classifies each of these nations as death penalty 'retentionists'. However, notwithstanding a common willingness to execute, the number of death sentences passed by courts that are reduced to a term of imprisonment or where the prisoner is released from custody altogether, through grants of clemency by the executive branc |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 345 pages : illustrations, forms ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-321) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780198809715 (hardback) : 0198809719 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | KNC981 |
| CLC: | D933.04 |
| Call Number: | D933.04/P281 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Six paradigmatic cases -- Sources and methods -- Four models of clemency -- Kingdom of Thailand -- Republic of Singapore -- Federation of Malaysia -- Republic of Indonesia -- What accounts for southeast Asia's diverse clemency practice? -- Conclusion: Clemency's place. |