International law and the death penalty: Reflecting or promoting change?

Capital Punishment: Strategies for Abolition

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 36-62

  Schabas, William A ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

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EID: 78649575213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511489273.002     Document Type: Chapter

References (12)

1. William A. Schabas, The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
2. William A. Schabas, ‘International Law and Abolition of the Death Penalty’, in Stephen P. Garvey (ed.), Capital Punishment at Century’s End: New Insights, Continuing Doubts (Chapel Hill, NC: Duke University Press, 2002).
3. A. Verdross, ‘Jus Dispositivum and Jus Cogens in International Law’ (1966) 60 American Journal of International Law 55.
4. W. Paul Gormley, ‘The Right to Life and the Rule of Non-Derogability: Peremptory Norms of Jus Cogens’, in Bertrand G. Ramcharan (ed.), The Right to Life in International Law (Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1985), pp. 120–59 at p. 125; ‘Human Rights in Chile’, UN Doc. E/CN.4/1983/9
5. Nguyen Quoc Dinh, Patrick Daillier and Alain Pellet, Droit international public (6th edn, Paris: Librairie G´en´erale de Droit et de Jurisprudence, 1995), p. 302.
6. Oscar M. Uhler, Henri Coursier et al., Commentary, IV, Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (Geneva: International Committee of the Red Cross, 1958), p. 369.
7. Daniel D. Nsereko, ‘Arbitrary Deprivation of Life: Controls on Permissible Deprivations’, in Bertrand G. Ramcharan (ed.), The Right to Life in International Law (Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1985), pp. 245–83 at pp. 254–5
8. Martin Scheinin, ‘Capital Punishment and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Some Issues of Interpretation in the Practice of the Human Rights Committee’ (unpublished paper, on file with author), p. 13.
9. ‘EU Demarche on the Death Penalty’, 25 February 2000, http://www.eurunion.org/legislat/DeathPenalty/Demarche.htm
10. William A. Schabas, The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law (3rd edn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
11. Ian Brownlie, Principles of Public International Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979), pp. 10–11
12. William A. Schabas, ‘International Norms on Execution of the Insane and the Mentally Retarded’ (1993) 4 Criminal Law Forum 95.