The death penalty in Africa : foundations and future prospects / Andrew Novak.
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...
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Palgrave Pivot,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.