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Capital Punishment at the United Nations: Recent Developments

By Ilias Bantekas / Peter Hodgkinson / Criminal Law Forum, on 1 January 2000


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The article discusses the difficulties and controversies surrounding the 1999 Draft Resolution on the Death Penalty to the United Nations General Assembly.

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