1st Edition

Prisoner Voices from Death Row Indian Experiences

By Reena Mary George Copyright 2015
164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

Death penalty has produced endless discourses not only in the context of prisons, prisoners and punishment but also in various legal aspects concerning the validity of death penalty, the right to life, and torture. Death penalty is embedded in Indian law, however very little is known about the people who are on death row barring a few media reports on them. The main objective of this book is to... Read more

Foreword, Manfred Nowak



Preface



1. Intonation of the study



2. Articulation of methods and ethical concerns



3. ‘Skipping a beat’: voices of prisoners on death row



4. Voices creating (dis)harmony



 Appendix



 References



 Index.

Biography

Reena Mary George is a human rights consultant at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna, Austria.