The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective

by Roger G. Hood, Carolyn Hoyle, Roger Hood

Book Overview

This is the completely revised and updated third edition of Roger Hood's classic study on the death penalty. In it he surveys and analyses the status of the death penalty as a punishment worldwide, taking into account the changes that have taken place during the six years since the last edition was published. This new edition is especially valuable at a time when more and more countries are joining the movement to abolish the death penalty worldwide...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199251282
• ISBN13: 9780199251285
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.1" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

A Masterpiece of Compilation and Analysis

Earlier editions of this book by Prof. Roger Hood have been hugely expanded and transformed with the addition of the input from his co-author and Oxford University colleague, Carolyn Hoyle. What was already an essential work for anyone remotely interested in the field thus becomes a must-read for a broader audience - frankly, anyone who cares about justice and human rights. The breadth and scale of the authors' accomplishment is quite breathtaking. Want to know about execution methods and the fairness of trials in Iran or Nigeria? You'll find the answers here, together, of course, with a lucid and in some ways damning exposition of the use of the death penalty in the country that attracts most attention, the United States. Legal, ethical and historical factors are all explained with intellectual clarity and limpid prose. SUPERB.