Preface / Ban Ki-Moon -- Introduction. Who are the victims? / Ivan S̆imonović -- Arguments against the death penalty as seen from a victimological perspective / Marc Groenhuijsen, Michael O'Connell -- Does the death penalty serve victims? / Maiko Tagusari -- Listening to victims / Mickell Branham -- Death penalty and the right to life / Mireya García Ramírez -- Escaping the closure trap / Jody L. Madeira -- Does capital punishment bring closure to the victims? / David Johnson -- Victims of wrongful conviction in retentionist nations / Carolyn Hoyle -- In the shadow of the death penalty / Brandon Garrett -- Discrimination and the death penalty / Ross Kleinstuber -- Capital punishment, mental illness, and intellectual disability : the failure to protect individuals with mental disorders facing execution / Sandra Babcock -- Inevitability of arbitrariness : another aspect of victimisation in capital punishment laws / Saul Lehrfrend and Roger Hood -- Cases of the death penalty against international law : Amnesty International's concerns / Salil Shetty -- Death penalty : torture or ill-treatment? / Jens Modvig -- Hidden victims : the families of those facing the death penalty / Susan F. Sharp -- Impact of the death penalty on the children with a parent on death row or executed / Francis Ssuubi -- Ending silence, ending shame / Susannah Sheffer -- Impact of the imposition of the death penalty on families of the convicted in the Caribbean / Florence Seemungal, Lizzie Seal and Lynsey Black -- Socio--psychological challenges of 'Death Row families' / Sandra Joy -- Death penalty and its impact on the professionals involved in the execution process / Florence Seemungal, Lizzie Seal and Lynsey Black -- Executioners at work : collateral consequences of executions for officers working on Death Row and in the Death House / Robert Johnson -- Painful then, painful now / Ron McAndrew -- Fighting for clients' lives : the impact of death penalty work on post-conviction capital defence attorneys / Susannah Sheffer -- Death penalty : killing what we instead could be / James R. Acker -- Death penalty as a public health problem / Walter C. Long -- Afterword / Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein.

336 p.: col ill.

Includes bibliographical references.
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