International Library of Essays on Capital Punishment, Volume 3

Peter Hodgkinson OBE is Director of the Centre for Capital Punishment Studies and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Westminster, UK.

• Contents: Introduction; Part I Medical Issues: Doctors and the death penalty: ethics and a cruel punishment, Robert Ferris and James Welsh; Capital punishment and mental health issues: global examples, Nicola Browne, Seema Kandelia, Rupa Reddy and Peter Hodgkinson; The use of prisoners as sources of organs - an ethically dubious practice, Arthur Caplan; The Royal College of Psychiatrists and the death penalty, John Gunn; Physicians must honor refusal of treatment to restore competency by non-dangerous inmates on death row, Howard Zonana; Physicians should treat mentally ill death row inmates, even if treatment is refused, Melissa McDonnell and Robert T.M. Phillips; Organs by firing squad: the medical and moral implausibility of death penalty organ procurement, Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai, Meng-Kung Tsai and Wen-Je Ko. Part II Capital Punishment Policy Around the World: The abolition of the death penalty in Taiwan: why a de facto moratorium was established and lost, Fort Fu-Te Liao; Executions, imprisonment and crime in Trinidad and Tobago, David F. Greenberg and Biko Agozino; Between elite compliance and state socialisation: the abolition of the death penalty in Eastern Europe, Ridvan Peshkopia and Arben Imami; The abolition of the death penalty in Rwanda, Audrey Boctor; Death penalty politics and symbolic law in Russia, Olga B. Semukhina and John F. Galliher; The death penalty in China today: kill fewer, kill cautiously, Susan Trevaskes; Japan - the government’s support for capital punishment between 2009 and 2012, Mika Obara; Capital punishment in New Zealand: resurrection and repeal, Greg Newbold. Part III Executions, Executioners and the Condemned: Apology and remorse in the last statements of death row prisoners, Judy Eaton and Anna Theuer; Current issues involving lethal injection, Andrew Fulkerson and Michael Suttmoeller; The role of moral disengagement in the execution process, Michael J. Osofsky, Albert Bandura and Philip G. Zimbardo; The psychological experience of security officers who work with executions, Michael J. Osofsky and Howard J. Osofsky; Public penology: postcolonial biopolitics and a death in Alipur central jail, Calcutta, Baidik Bhattacharya; The executioner: his place in English society, Gerald D. Robin; State executioner Pierrepoint: a cinematic portrayal of moral disengagement, Steve Greenfield. Part IV Media: The media and the death penalty: the limits of sentimentality, the power of abjection, Roseanne Kennedy; Televising executions, primetime ‘live’?, Paul S. Leighton; Fear factor: the role of the media in covering and shaping the death penalty, Susan Bandes; Law-and-order politics, public-opinion polls and the media, Sharon Casey and Philip Mohr. Part V Capital Punishment and Religion: Capital punishment in the Islamic jurisprudence, Ahmed Abbadi; God and the executioner: the influence of Western religion on the death penalty, Davison M. Douglas; Of compassion and capital punishment: a Buddhist perspective on the death penalty, Damien P. Horrigan; Death as a penalty in the Shari’a, M. Cherif Bassouni. Part VI Drug Offenders and Capital Punishment: The death penalty for drug offences: shared responsibility and shared consequences, Patrick Gallahue and Rick Lines. Part VII War and the Death Penalty: ‘Shot at dawn’: military executions in the Great War, Cathryn Corns; The death penalty and war, Bertil Dunér and Hanna Geurtsen; Executing US soldiers in England, World War II, command influence and sexual racism, J. Robert Lilley and Michael Thomson; Name index.