Resources

Capital Punishment Update: newsletter

• Vol. 1 (25 March 2005)
• Vol. 2 (8 April 2005)
• Vol. 3 (25 April 2005)
• Vol. 4 (30 May 2005)

CCL background papers

• The Death Penalty in Australia and Overseas
• The Second Optional Protocol aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
• CCL's submission to the Singapore Law Society's inquiry into capital punishment

Speeches

• Hon. Mr Justice Ian Callinan, Capital Punishment (22 March 2005).
• Tony Glynn SC, To Execute a Terrorist is to Reward Terrorism (22 March 2005).
• K. S. Rajah SC, The Mandatory Death Sentence (22 March 2005).
• Hon. Mr Justice Michael Kirby, The High Court and the Death Penalty: Look Back, Looking Forward (6 October 2003).

UN Reports

• UN General-Secretary, Capital punishment and implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty (9 March 2005), UN Doc E/2005/3.
• UN General-Secretary, Question of the Death Penalty (23 January 2004), UN Doc E/CN.4/2004/86.

other reports

• Ivan Potas and John Walker, Capital Punishment (1987), Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice (Australian Institute of Criminology)
• Janet Chan and Deborah Oxley, The deterrent effect of capital punishment: A review of the research evidence (2004), Crime & Justice Bulletin (NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research
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