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Reforming The Death Penalty In Egypt: An Islamic Law Perspective, Gaber Mohamed
Reforming The Death Penalty In Egypt: An Islamic Law Perspective, Gaber Mohamed
Maurer Theses and Dissertations
The main goal of this thesis is to reform the imposition of the death penalty in the Egyptian legal system through the tools and theories of Islamic law. This subject will be discussed in three main chapters: The first chapter will be a survey of the current application of the death penalty in the Egyptian legal system, including the death penalty’s history, laws, courts, appeals, legal procedures, and general comments on the current application of the penalty. The second chapter will be about the death penalty in Islamic law – including the sources of Islamic law, the crimes that merit …