The Global Decline of the Mandatory Death Penalty

The Global Decline of the Mandatory Death Pen...

The Global Decline of the Mandatory Death Penalty was written by and Andrew Novak. The 200 page book was published by Routledge in 2016 (originally in 2014) with an ISBN 10 of 1317030273. 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 Global Decline of the Mandatory Death Penalty mentions 1 serial killers including David Thabo Simelane. The author Andrew Novak has 1 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

Historically, at English common law, the death penalty was mandatory for the crime of murder and other violent felonies. Over the last three decades, however, many former British colonies have reformed their capital punishment regimes to permit judicial sentencing discretion, including consideration of mitigating factors. Applying a comparative analysis to the law of capital punishment, Novak examines the constitutional jurisprudence and resulting legislative reform in the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South and Southeast Asia, focusing on the rapid retreat of the mandatory death penalty in the Commonwealth over the last thirty years. The coordinated mandatory death penalty challenges - which have had the consequence of greatly reducin...