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The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Pulling Back the Curtain to Expose a Flawed Regime

Gen Sander, Rick Lines

Collapse of the Global Order on Drugs: From UNGASS 2016 to Review 2019

Swansea University Author: Rick Lines

Abstract

This chapter explores the question of the death penalty for drug offences, the human rights issues it engages and the challenges it presents for the international drug control regime and UN drug control debates.

Published in: Collapse of the Global Order on Drugs: From UNGASS 2016 to Review 2019
ISBN: 9781787564886
Published: Emerald 2018
URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa44813
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Abstract: This chapter explores the question of the death penalty for drug offences, the human rights issues it engages and the challenges it presents for the international drug control regime and UN drug control debates.
Keywords: death penalty, capital punishment, drugs, drug offences, human rights, UNGASS
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences