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Mit Artikel 102 des Grundgesetzes fand nach fast 100 Jahren abolitionistischer Reformbestrebungen die Zulassung der Todesstrafe ihr verfassungsrechtliches Ende. Was waren die Gründe für die überraschende Entscheidung des damaligen Gesetzgebers, entgegen der zu jener Zeit vorherrschenden Volksstimmung zugunsten der Todesstrafe, die höchste Strafe abzuschaffen. Welche Auswirkungen hatte das Verfassungsverbot auf die diese Regelung ablehnende Bevölkerung? Untersucht wird insbesondere die Entwicklung der parlamentarischen und öffentlichen Meinungsbildung in der Zeit von 1949 bis 1990 zur Frage der erneuten Anwendung der Todesstrafe. Denn trotz der eindeutigen Regelung des Artikels 102, die nur mit einer verfassungsändernden Mehrheit in Bundestag und Bundesrat beseitigt werden kann, wurde die Regelung seit Beginn der 50er Jahre bis hinein in die 70er Jahre immer wieder durch Politik, Presse und Öffentlichkeit kontrovers diskutiert. Angeheizt durch teils aufsehenerregende Verbrechen gab es zahlreiche Versuche, die verfassungsrechtliche Entscheidung rückgängig zu machen. Erst in den späten 70er Jahren stellte sich eine stabile Mehrheit gegen die erneute Einführung der Todesstrafe ein. Das ehemals heftig kritisierte Verfassungsverbot hatte sich zu einem von der Mehrheit des Volkes allgemein anerkannten Rechtsgrundsatz entwickelt. Anhand parlamentarischer Debatten, Akten des Bundesjustizministeriums sowie der Auswertung der Tagespresse und demoskopischer Erhebungen versucht die Arbeit Erkenntnisse zu Motivationen und Ansichten zu geben, warum die Politik trotz der fehlenden Übereinstimmung mit der öffentlichen Meinung an ihrer Entscheidung unbeirrt festhielt, die Bevölkerung das Verfassungsverbot erst Jahrzehnte nach seinem Inkrafttreten akzeptierte und diese Entwicklung schließlich dazu führte, dass die Bundesrepublik Deutschland fortan auch über ihr Territorium hinaus für die Ächtung der Todesstrafe eintrat.

Capital punishment --- Death Penalty. --- Federal Republic of Germany.

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Why have generations of philosophers failed or refused to articulate a rigorous challenge to the death penalty, when literature has been rife with death penalty abolitionism for centuries? In this book, Peggy Kamuf explores why any properly philosophical critique of capital punishment in the West must confront the literary as that which exceeds the logical demands of philosophy.Jacques Derrida has written that “the modern history of the institution named literature in Europe over the last three or four centuries is contemporary with and indissociable from a contestation of the death penalty.” How, Kamuf asks, does literature contest the death penalty today, particularly in the United States where it remains the last of its kind in a Western nation that professes to be a democracy? What resources do fiction, narrative, and poetic language supply in the age of the remains of the death penalty?Following a lucid account of Derrida’s approach to the death penalty, Kamuf pursues this question across several literary texts. In reading Orwell’s story “A Hanging,” Kamuf explores the relation between literary narration and the role of the witness, concluding that such a witness needs the seal of literary language in order to account for the secret of the death penalty. The next chapter turns to the American scene with Robert Coover’s 1977 novel The Public Burning, which restages the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg as an outlandish public spectacle in Times Square. Because this fictional device reverses the drive toward secrecy that, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, put an end to public executions in the West, Kamuf reads the novel in a tension with the current tendency in the U.S. to shore up and protect remaining death penalty practices through increasingly pervasive secrecy measures. A reading of Norman Mailer’s 1979 novel The Executioner’s Song, shows the breakdown of any firm distinction between suicide and capital execution and explores the essential affinity between traditional narrative structure, which is plotted from the end, and the “plot” of a death penalty. Final readings of Kafka, Derrida, and Baudelaire consider the relation between literature and law, showing how performative literary language can “play the law. “A brief conclusion, titled “Postmortem,” reflects on the condition of literature as that which survives the death penalty.A major contribution to the field of law and society, this book makes the case for literature as a space for contesting the death penalty, a case that scholars and activists working across a range of traditions will need to confront.

Charles Baudelaire. --- Derrida. --- George Orwell. --- Norman Mailer. --- Robert Coover. --- death penalty. --- Charles Baudelaire. --- Derrida. --- George Orwell. --- Norman Mailer. --- Robert Coover. --- death penalty.

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Capital punishment --- Abolition of capital punishment --- Death penalty --- Death sentence --- Criminal law --- Punishment --- Executions and executioners

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Part I: Issues and Methods. 1. Asia and the Future of Capital Punishment. 2. Varieties of Capital Punishment in Contemporary Part II: National Profiles. 3. Development without Abolition: Japan in the 21st Century. 4. A Lesson Learned: Capital Punishment in the Philippines. 5. The Vanguard: The Death Penalty and Political Change in South Korea. 6. The Other China: Capital Punishment in Taiwan. 7. The Political Origins of Chinese Death Penalty Exceptionalism. Part III: Lessons and Prospects. 8. Lessons from Asia. 9. The Pace of Change in Asia. Appendix A: Capital Punishment in the Hermit Kingdom

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Determinants of the Death Penalty seeks to explain the phenomenon of capital punishment - without recourse to value judgements - by identifying those characteristics common to countries that use the death penalty and those that mark countries which do not. This global study uses statistical analysis to relate the popularity of the death penalty to physical, cultural, social, economical, institutional, actor oriented and historical factors. Separate studies are conducted for democracies and non-democracies and within four regional contexts. The book also contains an in-depth investigat

Capital punishment --- Abolition of capital punishment --- Death penalty --- Death sentence --- Criminal law --- Punishment --- Executions and executioners