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The death penalty in Africa :foundations and future prospects /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The death penalty in Africa :Andrew Novak.
Reminder of title:	foundations and future prospects /
Author:	Novak, Andrew,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Capital punishmentAfrica.
Subject:	Africa.
Online resource:	https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137438775
ISBN:	1137438770 (electronic bk.)

The death penalty in Africa :foundations and future prospects /
Novak, Andrew,

The death penalty in Africa :foundations and future prospects /Andrew Novak. - 1 online resource.

1.Introduction to the Death Penalty in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 2.Capital Punishment in Precolonial African Society -- 3.Executions and State Power during the Colonial Period -- 4.The Politicization of the Death Penalty After Independence -- 5.An Opening: The Death Penalty in an Era of Democratization -- 6.The Operation of the Modern Death Penalty in Africa -- 7.Conclusion: The Future of the Death Penalty in Africa.

Over the past decade the death penalty has sharply declined across the African continent, and the number of executions outside of North Africa has fallen to a trickle. While this would seem to fit within the general global decline in executions and the increasing number of abolitionist jurisdictions worldwide, it is a process that bears little relation to public opinion in Africa or to the strong retributivist sentiments held by the continent's political elites. This study places modern capital punishment in Africa within the context of religious and culturally specific notions of life, death, and burial as well as the Western imposition of criminal and penal policy during the colonial era. The tensions of the death penalty in present-day sub-Saharan Africa, increasingly limited to English-speaking and common-law Africa (as well as majority-Islamic regions), reflect these historical origins.

ISBN: 1137438770 (electronic bk.)

Source: 756832Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Capital punishment
--Africa.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

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Africa.
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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HV8699.A35

Dewey Class. No.: 364.66096

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