Justice, mercy, and caprice : clemency and the death penalty in Ireland / Ian O'Donnell.
The book is a work of criminal justice history that speaks to the emergence of a more humane Irish state - a close examination of the decision to grant clemency to those sentenced to death between 1923 and 1990, addressing important issues of law and penology that are of continuing relevance for cou...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from Oxford Scholarship Online |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017. |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Clarendon studies in criminology.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Justice, mercy, and caprice : |b clemency and the death penalty in Ireland / |c Ian O'Donnell. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Oxford, United Kingdom : |b Oxford University Press, |c 2017. | |
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| 490 | 1 | |a Clarendon studies in criminology | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 1. Introduction -- 2. Classifying Clemency -- 3. For and Against Clemency -- 4. Juries and Judges -- 5. Extraordinary Courts -- 6. Governments -- 7. Blurring the Separation of Powers -- 8. Undoing Death I -- 9. Undoing Death II -- 10. Release -- Postcript. | |
| 520 | |a The book is a work of criminal justice history that speaks to the emergence of a more humane Irish state - a close examination of the decision to grant clemency to those sentenced to death between 1923 and 1990, addressing important issues of law and penology that are of continuing relevance for countries that use capital punishment. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Capital punishment |z Ireland |x History |y 20th century. | |
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