“Comparative Capital Punishment,” edited by Carol S. Steiker, Harvard Law School and Jordan M. Steiker, The University of Texas School of Law, offers a set of in-depth, critical and comparative contributions addressing death practices around the world. Despite the dramatic decline of the death penalty in the last half of the twentieth century, capital punishment remains in force in a substantial number of countries around the globe.
This research handbook explores both the forces behind the stunning recent rejection of the death penalty, as well as the changing shape of capital practices where it is retained. The expert contributors address the social, political, economic, and cultural influences on both retention and abolition of the death penalty and consider the distinctive possibilities and pathways to worldwide abolition.
In addition to the book’s editors, panelists included:
William Alford, vice dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law, director of the East Asian Legal Studies Program, and chair of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability;
Margaret Burnham, University Distinguished Professor of Law and director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University School of Law; and
Gerald Neuman, J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law, and co-director of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.
