Preface by Robert Badinter = 7
Introduction - The importance of abolishing the death penalty by Roger Hood = 13
The death penalty versus human rights by Eric Prokosch = 23
Capital punishment - the families of the homicide victim and the condemned by Peter Hodgkinson = 37
The role of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly by Renate Wohlwend = 65
Protocol No. 6 to the European Convention on Human Rights by Hans Christian Kruger = 87
The case-law of the institutions of the European Convention on Human Rights by Caroline Ravaud = 97
The UN's work in the field of the death penalty by Sir Nigel Rodley = 125
Alternatives to the death penalty -the UK experience by Peter Hodgkinson = 159
Abolition in France by Anne Ferrazzini and Michel Forst = 191
The Russian Federation and the Death Penalty by Anatoly Pristavkin = 199
The present situation of the death penalty in the United States by Hugo Adam Bedau = 205
The death penalty in Japan by Yoshihiro Yasudam = 215
Appendices = 233
Introduction - The importance of abolishing the death penalty by Roger Hood = 13
The death penalty versus human rights by Eric Prokosch = 23
Capital punishment - the families of the homicide victim and the condemned by Peter Hodgkinson = 37
The role of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly by Renate Wohlwend = 65
Protocol No. 6 to the European Convention on Human Rights by Hans Christian Kruger = 87
The case-law of the institutions of the European Convention on Human Rights by Caroline Ravaud = 97
The UN's work in the field of the death penalty by Sir Nigel Rodley = 125
Alternatives to the death penalty -the UK experience by Peter Hodgkinson = 159
Abolition in France by Anne Ferrazzini and Michel Forst = 191
The Russian Federation and the Death Penalty by Anatoly Pristavkin = 199
The present situation of the death penalty in the United States by Hugo Adam Bedau = 205
The death penalty in Japan by Yoshihiro Yasudam = 215
Appendices = 233