Special Issue "The Death Penalty in the 21st Century"

Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Dennis R. Longmire
College of Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 77341-2296, USA
Website: http://www.shsu.edu/~icc_drl
E-Mail: longmire@shsu.edu
Phone: +1 936 294 1651
Fax: +1 936 294 1693
Interests: capital punishment; public perceptions of crime, criminality and criminal justice; ethics and professionalism in criminal justice

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Laws, “The Death Penalty in the 21^st Century” focuses on the most severe sanction available in modern societies, the penalty of death. This issue will include writings focusing on the death penalty from an international human rights perspective. Much has been written about particular legal, constitutional, and public policy issues associated with the death penalty from both national and local legal perspectives. Little scholarship has focused on what is the most severe legal sanction available in modern societies, the death penalty, from a broad human rights perspective. Authors working on articles focusing on human rights concerns relevant to the death penalty are encouraged to contribute to this issue. Works focusing on human rights at the most local as well as most general levels are invited. Case studies, multi-national cross-sectional analysis of data relevant to the death penalty, and legal case briefs focusing on human rights associated with the death penalty are welcome.

Prof. Dr. Dennis R. Longmire
Guest Editor

Submission

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• death penalty
• capital punishment
• human rights
• morality
• international perspectives
• ethics
• law