Russia, the death penalty, and Europe: the ambiguities of influence

Light, Matthew; Kovalev, Nikolai

doi:10.1080/1060586x.2013.816104

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“…These can include, for example, contemporary Russia, India, and Turkey, all states that face multiple challenges of internal political violence and that have ambiguous positions on the death penalty. Russia has been a de facto abolitionist state since the 1990s; extrajudicial killings are widespread (especially in Chechnya and the rest of the northern Caucasus), and calls for reinstating the death penalty abound (Light and Kovalev 2013). India retains the death penalty, but executions are very rare, while thousands are killed in so-called encounter killings (Johnson 2011).…”

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Restraint, Reaction, and Penal Fantasies: Notes on the Death Penalty in Israel, 1967–2016

Dudai¹

2018

Law soc. inq.

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What role does the death penalty play in contexts of protracted political violence? What does it symbolize for its opponents and proponents in such contexts? Can it survive as a potent topic of political life even without actual executions? Since 1967, the death penalty has been a lawful sanction in Israel's military courts, which have jurisdiction over Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. Though it has never been carried out, it has been intensely debated throughout this period and the topic has retained major political, cultural, and judicial significance. I argue that both sides in these debates use the topic mostly symbolically, rather than as an issue of public policy. For opponents, refraining from using the death penalty has become a symbol of restraint, used in self‐legitimation. For proponents, death penalty advocacy serves as what I term a penal fantasy, an outlet for frustration, symbolizing defiance against the image of restraint.

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Restraint, Reaction, and Penal Fantasies: Notes on the Death Penalty in Israel, 1967–2016

Dudai¹

2018

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Russia, the death penalty, and Europe: the ambiguities of influence

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Restraint, Reaction, and Penal Fantasies: Notes on the Death Penalty in Israel, 1967–2016

Restraint, Reaction, and Penal Fantasies: Notes on the Death Penalty in Israel, 1967–2016

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