Singapore and Thailand: Explaining Differences in Death Penalty Clemency

Pascoe, Daniel

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“…Although we are not aware of any grants of executive clemency specifically made to slow the community spread of infectious disease over the past several decades (as distinct from alleviating an individual prisoner's suffering from disease or reducing risk of infection), prison overcrowding has long been advanced as a justification for clemency (e.g., Judge, 1982;Kobil, 1991;Palenberg, 1983). Clemency has been used for this purpose in pre-pandemic Argentina, Thailand, St Kitts and Nevis, France, and the United States, among many other national jurisdictions in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (Arias & Kouroutakis, 2020;Pascoe, 2017;Nation News, 2 January 2017;Levy, 2007;Barkow, 2009;Love, 2010). It is through this existing framework that coronavirus clemency may be best understood.…”

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Executive Clemency During the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Global Analysis of Law and Practice

Novak

Pascoe

2022

Int Criminol

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Because of the threat that Covid-19 poses to incarcerated populations, executives around the world have used their clemency powers to commute sentences and grant freedom to prisoners in high-risk categories. Coronavirus pardons may be justified on several theories of punishment and have been exercised alongside bureaucratic forms of legal mercy such as parole and compassionate release. Although executive clemency is residual in most legal systems, the novel coronavirus has reactivated the pardon power in many jurisdictions, overcoming significant legal and procedural barriers, albeit with exclusions for particular crimes and categories of offender. This article relays recent global trends in executive clemency granted as a result of Covid-19, drawing out relevant lessons for the academic literature on the topic, as well as for policymakers dealing with future pandemics and other emergencies.

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Executive Clemency During the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Global Analysis of Law and Practice

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Pascoe

2022

Int Criminol

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“…Ha ejecutado prisioneros con la frecuencia suficiente para nunca haber sido reclasificado de estado "activamente retencionista" a estado "abolicionista de facto" desde 1975. Sin embargo, la proporción de prisioneros condenados a muerte otorgados clemencia o indulto, en lugar de ser ejecutados, es de más del 90% para Tailandia, durante el período de 40 años desde 1975-2014 (Pascoe, 2017).…”

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La pena de muerte como máximo castigo y su impacto en la sociedad contemporánea

Márquez

Añazco

2020

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El objetivo principal de la presente investigación es analizar la ley de la pena de muerte como protagonista de la incertidumbre moral de los Derechos Humanos y sus concepciones, mediante la comparación de los sistemas jurídicos de los diferentes Estados. Para satisfacer dicho propósito se ha utilizado una metodología cualitativa-cuantitativa para indagar sobre el tema en cuestión. Del mismo modo se ha recurrido a técnicas como entrevistas, encuestas y a la observación documental. La tendencia mundial actual con respecto a la pena capital es su abolición, por lo que se espera que cada sistema jurídico logre dicho cometido. En Ecuador, la pena de muerte se abolió hace más de cien años y su aplicación es incompatible con su texto constitucional y con los tratados internacionales que ha firmado. Sin embargo, como resultado del estudio se obtuvo que no todos los miembros de la sociedad ecuatoriana concuerdan con esta postura. A nivel nacional, se concluye que esto se debe al populismo penal del que se valen muchos legisladores en sus discursos políticos, al débil sistema de rehabilitación social en el país y la decepción de los ciudadanos ante las sentencias declaradas.

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Singapore and Thailand: Explaining Differences in Death Penalty Clemency

Cited by 2 publications

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Executive Clemency During the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Global Analysis of Law and Practice

Executive Clemency During the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Global Analysis of Law and Practice

La pena de muerte como máximo castigo y su impacto en la sociedad contemporánea

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