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International Law And The Implementation Of The American Bar Association Resolution Regarding The American Bar Association Resolution Regarding The Death Penalty, Ved P. Nanda
ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law
My assignment is to consider the emerging international norms and how they might affect implementation of the American Bar Association (ABA) resolution calling for a moratorium on the imposition and enforcement of the death penalty.'
International Law And Abolition Of The Death Penalty: Recent Developments, William A. Schabas
International Law And Abolition Of The Death Penalty: Recent Developments, William A. Schabas
ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law
As a goal for civilized nations, abolition of the death penalty was promoted during the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights' in 1948. It found, however, that expression was only implicit in the recognition of what international human rights law designated "the right to life;" the same approach was taken in the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, adopted May 4, 1948.