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AI Hamburg Agenda:

The Death Penalty as Punishment

2.

b.

A restatement and analysis of classic arguments on deterrence, punishment and recidivism et al. and their continuing "relevance to the campaign. The death penalty as de facto racism (perhaps with particular reference to the USA and South Africa).

AI Sri Lanka Agenda :

Public Opinion and the Death Sentence

a.

b.

C.

The sentence of death as a cultural phenomenon.

The mass media and the sentence of death : a comparative analysis of the approach adopted by the world's press

to specific political and criminal cases.

Public attitudes to the sentence of death specifically

a comparison between the attitudes :

i.

ii.

at a time when executions afe being carried out and at a time when this is not the case;

in locations perceived as "high crime" and "low crime" areas;

iii.

at times of national emergency and other more peaceful times.

AACC Seminar :

1.

2.

3.

The Death Sentence and Public Opinion in Africa

African perceptions of the death penalty as punishment rather than deterrence.

a.

b.

The aims and intentions of public executions. c. The death sentence and the mass media's treatment

of executions.

The Death Sentence in times of National Emergency

a.

b.

a.

The death sentence and clemency as instruments to promote political cohesion eg: the Zanzibar Treason Trial case, the political impact of the sentences not being carried out.

The death sentence in the context of coup and attempted coups.

· The Death Sentence in States with Minority Governments

De facto racism in the passing and execution of death sentences in South Africa, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) and Namibia (eg: a comparison of the incidence of commutation of death sentences in cases involving whites and blacks).

b. The death sentence meted out by, and passed on, those

involved in guerrilla warfares

International Norms Affecting the Death Penalty

a. An analysis of UN and other inter-governmental

resolutions that relate to this subject.

This

agenda item is as important as it is self-explanatory.

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