Academic report

Abolition of the Death Penalty: China in World Perspective

By Roger Hood / City University of Hong Kong Law Review 1-21, on 1 January 2009


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This article outlines changes that the author has observed in the debate on the death penalty.

  • Document type Academic report
  • Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,



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