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When the state kills: The death penalty vesus human rights

When the state kills: The death penalty vesus human rights

Subject Index Human rights
Author Amnesty International
Publisher The Authors
Date of publication 1989
Place of publication
ISBN 0 86210 164 6
Number of pages 267
Language English
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This book is damning incidents of the death penalty, the premeditated killing of a human being by the state. The book analyses the arguments used to justify the death penalty and shows how they fail the tests of logic and experience.