Death Penalty and Psychiatric Evaluation in Japan

Psychiatric testimony in death penalty litigation.

Several recent developments have created an opportunity for a new type of psychiatric involvement in the criminal process. This new involvement raises ~ome important new questions of its own but also requires that we rethink, In this context, several traditional issues concerning the manner in which psychiatrists should be interjected into the criminal litigation system and how they should func...

Eliminating the death penalty from drug crimes: requirements and Prohibitions

The Ideaof the capability of the death penalty to deal with drug-related crimes is, in essence, a guarantor of the goal of safeguarding human capital and social values. Certainly, Use of the death penalty can be accepted in response to some of the narcotics crimes. But there are many other crimes that follow the death penalty, but they can be categorically opposed and unsuccessful. Execution is...

Physicians and the death penalty.

Murder and the Death Penalty

Poverty and the Death Penalty

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