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Guerrilla Warfare And The Constitution, Sonja R. West
Guerrilla Warfare And The Constitution, Sonja R. West
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Earlier this week, the United States Supreme Court upheld, by a 5-4 vote, the states’ ability to execute death row inmates with a three-drug lethal injection cocktail that critics argue causes excruciating pain. The Court reasoned that states should be allowed to use the drug in question, despite its involvement in several botched executions, in part because states can no longer attain more effective alternatives. In the majority opinion, the justices spin an erroneous tale about “anti-death-penalty advocates” pressuring pharmaceutical companies into refusing to supply other, more humane drugs to the states for use in capital punishment. This alleged radical …
Capital Punishment: Corporate Criminal Liability For Gross Violations Of Human Rights, Diane Marie Amann
Capital Punishment: Corporate Criminal Liability For Gross Violations Of Human Rights, Diane Marie Amann
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These remarks were presented on February 24, 2001, in a panel concluding a conference entitled "Holding Multinational Corporations Responsible Under International Law" at Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, California.
Sovereign Immunity From Execution: A Comparative Analysis, Rainer Esser
Sovereign Immunity From Execution: A Comparative Analysis, Rainer Esser
LLM Theses and Essays
This thesis discusses the approaches which several countries and international organizations have undertaken with regard to various aspects of sovereign immunity from execution. In addition, this thesis deals with the influence which the executive branches of countries may exert on the enforcement decision.