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MOHAMED CHEICK MKHAITIR
MAURITANIA
Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir
Blogger sentenced to death in 2015. Released by a Mauritanian court of justice in 2017, but held in arbitrary and incommunicado detention until 2019.
- BOOK
Routledge Hanbook on Capital Punishment
Author: Robert M. Bohm, Gavin Lee
Edited by: Routledge Handbook
Published date: 2015
Number of pages: 137
Capital punishment is one of the more controversial subjects in the social sciences, especially in criminal justice and criminology. Over the last decade or so, the United States has experienced a significant decline in the number of death sentences and executions. Since 2007, eight states have abolished capital punishment, bringing the total number of states without the death penalty to 19, plus the District of Columbia, and more are likely to follow suit in the near future (Nebraska reinstated its death penalty in 2016). Worldwide, 70 percent of countries have abolished capital punishment in law or in practice. The current trend suggests the eventual demise of capital punishment in all but a few recalcitrant states and countries. Within this context, a fresh look at capital punishment in the United States and worldwide is warranted.
The Routledge Handbook on Capital Punishment comprehensively examines the topic of capital punishment from a wide variety of perspectives. A thoughtful introductory chapter from experts Bohm and Lee presents a contextual framework for the subject matter, and chapters present state-of-the-art analyses of a range of aspects of capital punishment, grouped into five sections: (1) Capital Punishment: History, Opinion, and Culture; (2) Capital Punishment: Rationales and Religious Views; (3) Capital Punishment and Constitutional Issues; (4) The Death Penalty’s Administration; and (5) The Death Penalty’s Consequences.
This is a key collection for students taking courses in prisons, penology, criminal justice, criminology, and related subjects, and is also an essential reference for academics and practitioners working in prison service or in related agencies.
- movie
The accused: damned or devoted?
Réalisé par Mohammed Ali Naqvi
Native country: Royaume-Uni
Duration: 74 minutes
Release date: 2020
In Pakistan, anyone accused of blasphemy faces the death penalty. While civil rights activists have been calling for years for a revision of this law, passed in 1986, Khadim Hussain Rizvi, founder of the fundamentalist Islamist party Tehreek-e-Labbaik, has orchestrated a violent campaign to show his support. He is urging his millions of supporters to attack those accused of blasphemy themselves. Asia Bibi, a Christian peasant woman sentenced to death for blasphemy in 2010 after being accused of drinking from the same cup as Muslim women in her village, has become a symbol of this violent radicalization. After having her sentence upheld on appeal, she was finally acquitted by the Supreme Court in 2018...