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In the mid-nineteenth century the Ottoman Empire witnessed the emergence of an official criminal legal policy and procedures to preclude state officials from inflicting pain over civilians while executing their duties. In less than two decades, new penal codes and statutes clearly and explicitly banned state officials from resorting to infliction of pain against a civilian to exercise state authority, as method of criminal interrogation and as discretionary...
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With a history marked by incompetence, political maneuvering, and secrecy, America's "most humane" execution method is anything but.
From the beginning of the Republic, this country has struggled to reconcile its use of capital punishment with the Constitution's prohibition of cruel punishment. Death penalty proponents argue both that it is justifiable as a response to particularly heinous crimes, and that it serves to deter others from committing...
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Allyson May chronicles the history of the English criminal trial and the development of a criminal bar in London between 1750 and 1850. She charts the transformation of the legal process and the evolution of professional standards of conduct for the criminal bar through an examination of the working lives of the Old Bailey barristers of the period. In describing the rise of adversarialism, May uncovers the motivations and interests of prosecutors,...
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On se souvient de cette sale affaire qui a secoué la France au tournant des années 2000. Des adultes, en nombre, accusés d'inceste et de pédophilie dans une petite cité, quelque part dans une petite ville.
On se souvient de la juste indignation qui avait soulevé les médias dans leur ensemble, écho de la réprobation de chacun d'entre nous.
On se souvient que le monde judiciaire avait tenu à accompagner cette réprobation et qu'il s'était...
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Un exceptionnel partage d'expérience et un formidable espoir que représentent l'engagement et le respect absolu des droits humains !
Ce livre n'est ni une autobiographie proprement dite, ni un ouvrage de droit.
Il raconte le cheminement qui a conduit Luc Walleyn à s'engager pour les droits humains, à lutter contre l'impunité de ceux qui les piétinent, à prendre la défense de victimes de génocide, d'esclavage et d'autres crimes contre...
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On the 50th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, the landmark case that led to free legal counsel for those who needed it, a veteran journalist investigates the way justice is delivered to the poor--and discovers a crisis in our nation's courts.
"On March 18, 1963, in one of its most significant legal decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that all defendants facing significant jail time have the constitutional...
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Shortly before she pushed her infant daughter headfirst into a bucket of water and fastened the lid, Annie Cherry warmed the pail because, as she later explained to a police officer, "It would have been cruel to put her in cold water." Afterwards, this mother sat down and poured herself a cup of tea. At Cherry's trial at the Old Bailey in 1877, Henry Charlton Bastian, physician to the National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic, focused his...
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In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk's legal odyssey began in 1975, when American investigators received evidence alleging that the Cleveland autoworker and naturalized US citizen had collaborated in Nazi genocide. In the years that followed, Demjanjuk was twice stripped...
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