Ian O'Donnell

Justice, Mercy, and Caprice

Clemency and the Death Penalty in Ireland

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Produktbeschreibung

The book is a work of criminal justice history that speaks to the emergence of a more humane Irish state - a close examination of the decision to grant clemency to those sentenced to death between 1923 and 1990, addressing important issues of law and penology that are of continuing relevance for countries that use capital punishment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 144mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9780198798477
• ISBN-10: 0198798474
• Artikelnr.: 49133482

Autorenporträt

Ian O'Donnell MRIA is Professor of Criminology at University College Dublin and an Adjunct Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. His last book, also published as part of OUP's Clarendon Studies in Criminology, was Prisoners, Solitude, and Time.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of tables
Introduction
The revolutionary period
Parameters of inquiry
Avoiding death-eligibility
Classifying Clemency
Who, where, how?
A tripartitie scheme
The 'prerogative'
For and Against Clemency
Discretion and desert
Cons
Pros
Justice, mercy, caprice
Juries and Judges
Weighing the evidence
Composition
Softening the verdict
Donning the black cap
A singular case
Extraordinary Courts
Special Powers Tribunal
The 'terror court'
Astounding legal manoeuvres
Capital murder
Governments
Limits to discretion
Public opinion
Groupthink
Arbitrary or principled decisions?
Blurring the Separation of Powers
Interfering judges
A belt of the crozier
Entreaties from His Excellency
Judges again, now expediting release
Undoing Death I
A cruel lottery?
The burden of an unwanted child
Sex and jealousy
Undoing Death II
Dreadful deeds done in turbulent times
Legally sane but strikingly odd
Chivalry
Caprice
Release
Procedures
When?
Whither?
Why?
Postscript
Appendices
I. Convicted of murder after trial by jury, and spared
II. Convicted of murder after trial by jury, and hanged
III. Sentenced to death by a non-jury court
Bibliography
I. Primary sources
II. Secondary sources
Index