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This work contains historical and contemporary information, and deals with the death penalty as an instrument of public policy, international law and human rights, and the politics of abolition versus retention. A special chapter focuses on the involvement of physicians in capital punishment, including lethal injection and the trade in human organs.

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9781872870328

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'Deserves to be widely read':Roger Hood Law Quarterly Review.'Highly Illuminating':Police Journal'Will replace many other sources of information':Justice of the Peace'Of great interest to criminologists':The Criminologist.'Compelling, sometimes shocking':Law and Justice.'Fascinating and superbly readable':The Law.

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Andrew Rutherford is Professor in Law at Southampton University. From 1984 to 1999 he was chairman of the Howard League for Penal Reform. He is the author of Prisons and the Process of Justice (Heineman), Growing Out of Crime: The New Era and Criminal Justice and the Pursuit of Decency (both Waterside Press).

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