The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia

The Next Frontier: National Development, Poli...

The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia was written by David T Johnson, and Franklin E Zimring. The 544 page book was published by Oxford University Press, USA in 2009 with an ISBN 10 of 019988756x. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia mentions 1 serial killers including Yoo Young-chul. The author David T Johnson has 2 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

Today, two-thirds of the world's nations have abolished the death penalty, either officially or in practice, due mainly to the campaign to end state executions led by Western European nations. Will this success spread to Asia, where over 95 percent of executions now occur? Do Asian values and traditions support capital punishment, or will development and democratization end executions in the world's most rapidly developing region? David T. Johnson, an expert on law and society in Asia, and Franklin E. Zimring, a senior authority on capital punishment, combine detailed case studies of the death penalty in Asian nations with cross-national comparisons to identify the critical factors for the future of Asian death penalty policy. The clear tre...