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Towards abolition of the death penalty in Uganda

Title
  1. Towards abolition of the death penalty in Uganda / [written by Orlando Fernandez for the Coalition].
Published by
  1. Kampala : Fountain Publishers ; East Lansing, MI : Distributed in North America by Michigan State University Press, 2008.
Author
  1. Fernandez, Orlando.

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Additional authors
  1. Coalition on the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Uganda.
  2. Foundation for Human Rights Initiative.
Description
  1. lv, 160 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Subject
  1. Capital punishment > Uganda
  2. Criminal justice, Administration of > Uganda
  3. Human rights > Uganda
  4. Capital punishment
  5. Criminal justice, Administration of
  6. Human rights
  7. Todesstrafe
  8. Uganda
  9. Uganda
Contents
  1. 1 The Death Penalty in Uganda: History, Law, and Practice -- Overview -- History -- Legal 11amework: Criminal Law -- From arrest to execution -- Military Law -- Executions in Uganda since the 1970s -- Conclusions and observations -- z The Death Penalty and International Law -- Why examine international sources? -- The United Nations -- The European and Inter-Americ anTuman Rights Systems -- The Inter-American System -- The African Human Rights System -- International Criminal Law -- Concluding observations -- 3 Landmark Judicial Challenges to Capital Punishment -- Overview -- Europe -- The United States -- Canada -- Asia -- India -- Latin America and the Caribbean -- Africa.
  2. 4 The Death Penalty in Uganda: The Challenge to its Constitutionality -- Overview -- Principles of constitutional interpretation and other preliminary matters -- Substantive issues -- The Death Penalty as aCruel and/or Degrading and/ or Inhuman Form of Punishment -- Concluding observations The likely Impact ot Kigula and 416 Others on the Death Penalty in Uganda -- 5 The Death Penalty in Uganda: The Perspective of those Affected -- Overview -- Socio-economic Backround of the Average Death -- Row Prisoner -- The Conviction and Appeals Process -- J uvenicles -- Conditions of detention -- Concu ding observ ations -- Conclusion -- B ibiiograpy -- Appendix 1 Civil Society Coalition oýtn Aboi thelit e Death Penalty (CADP) -- Appendix 2: Civil Society Coalition onr me Abolition of the Death Penalty (CADP): Member Oranisation.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. "Coalition on the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Uganda spearheaded by the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI)."
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-149) and index.