Death penalty politics: the fragility of abolition in Asia and the Pacific

Finnane, M. and Sato, Mai and Trevaskes, S. (2022) Death penalty politics: the fragility of abolition in Asia and the Pacific. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 11 (3), ISSN 2202-8005.

Abstract

Despite a steady increase worldwide in the number of states that have abolished the death penalty, capital punishment remainsa troubling presence in the international order. In Europe and Latin America, abolition dominates. However, the world’s leading powers in terms of economics and population include the retentionist states of China, India, Japan and the United States of America (USA). It seems there is no linear path to abolition, and its achievement is indeterminate. Yet, in international human rights law, death penalty abolition is a powerful norm embraced by half the countries across the world.This special collection of articles on the death penalty and the politics of abolition in Asia and the Pacific is published to coincide with the centenary of one of the world’s earliest statutory abolitions, in the Australian state of Queensland, in August 1922. Scholars of the death penalty, its practice and its abolition were invited to participate ina symposium in May 2021 hosted in Melbourne by Eleos Justice at Monash University and the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research at Griffith University. They were joined by lawyers and abolition advocates, including some who had worked on death row cases.

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