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Capital punishment has been carried out in Japan since ancient times. Although ancient Japan uniquely suspended executions for several centuries towards the end of the first millennium, today the death penalty is firmly established in Japan. This volume explores the current state of capital punishment, the domestic discussion on the subject, and the influence of the political orientations of the governments of recent years. The treatise is of current interest especially because of the Aum cult, whose leader Shoko Asahara is at present tried in Tokyo. If found guilty, he may be sentenced to death. After a three years' interval (between 1989 and 1993), Japan is nowadays undergoing a capital punishment "renaissance" with 39 executions between 1993 and 2000.

Capital punishment --- Public opinion --- History --- Death penalty

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Das Strafbefehlsverfahren ist trotz der Kürze und des Ausnahmecharakters seiner Regelungen in der Praxis von enormer Wichtigkeit. Die den Anklageprozess kennzeichnenden Grundsätze der Mündlichkeit, der Öffentlichkeit und der Gewährung rechtlichen Gehörs sind hier nicht bzw. nur unzulänglich umgesetzt. Wie kam es dazu, dass das Strafbefehlsverfahren trotz der Einführung eines reformierten, auf diesen Grundsätzen beruhenden Strafverfahrens Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts nicht nur Einzug in die deutsche Strafprozessordnung fand, sondern seit dem ständig ausgeweitet wird? Die Arbeit zeigt auf, dass das Strafbefehlsverfahren als ein Kind der Praxis aus einem Kompetenzkonflikt zwischen Polizei und Justiz hervorging, sich dann als integraler Bestandteil des Verfahrensrechts etablierte und schließlich zu einem unverzichtbaren Bestandteil der Strafprozessordnung wurde. Es wird die Entwicklung des Verfahrens beginnend mit dem in Berlin bekannten polizeirechtlichem Mandatsverfahren zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts und endend in den heutigen Tagen dargestellt und bewertet. Die Beweggründe und Argumentationslinien sowohl der am Gesetzgebungsverfahren Beteiligten als auch die der Praxis und der rechtswissenschaftlichen Literatur werden dazu unter - zum Großteil erstmaliger - Auswertung umfassenden Quellenmaterials aufgezeigt.

Criminal procedure --- Criminal law --- History. --- Penalty Order, Criminal Proceeding.

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Why have generations of philosophers failed or refused to articulate a rigorous challenge to the death penalty, when literature has been rife with death penalty abolitionism for centuries? In this book, Peggy Kamuf explores why any properly philosophical critique of capital punishment in the West must confront the literary as that which exceeds the logical demands of philosophy.Jacques Derrida has written that “the modern history of the institution named literature in Europe over the last three or four centuries is contemporary with and indissociable from a contestation of the death penalty.” How, Kamuf asks, does literature contest the death penalty today, particularly in the United States where it remains the last of its kind in a Western nation that professes to be a democracy? What resources do fiction, narrative, and poetic language supply in the age of the remains of the death penalty?Following a lucid account of Derrida’s approach to the death penalty, Kamuf pursues this question across several literary texts. In reading Orwell’s story “A Hanging,” Kamuf explores the relation between literary narration and the role of the witness, concluding that such a witness needs the seal of literary language in order to account for the secret of the death penalty. The next chapter turns to the American scene with Robert Coover’s 1977 novel The Public Burning, which restages the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg as an outlandish public spectacle in Times Square. Because this fictional device reverses the drive toward secrecy that, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, put an end to public executions in the West, Kamuf reads the novel in a tension with the current tendency in the U.S. to shore up and protect remaining death penalty practices through increasingly pervasive secrecy measures. A reading of Norman Mailer’s 1979 novel The Executioner’s Song, shows the breakdown of any firm distinction between suicide and capital execution and explores the essential affinity between traditional narrative structure, which is plotted from the end, and the “plot” of a death penalty. Final readings of Kafka, Derrida, and Baudelaire consider the relation between literature and law, showing how performative literary language can “play the law. “A brief conclusion, titled “Postmortem,” reflects on the condition of literature as that which survives the death penalty.A major contribution to the field of law and society, this book makes the case for literature as a space for contesting the death penalty, a case that scholars and activists working across a range of traditions will need to confront.

Charles Baudelaire. --- Derrida. --- George Orwell. --- Norman Mailer. --- Robert Coover. --- death penalty. --- Charles Baudelaire. --- Derrida. --- George Orwell. --- Norman Mailer. --- Robert Coover. --- death penalty.

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Capital punishment --- Abolition of capital punishment --- Death penalty --- Death sentence --- Criminal law --- Punishment --- Executions and executioners

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Part I: Issues and Methods. 1. Asia and the Future of Capital Punishment. 2. Varieties of Capital Punishment in Contemporary Part II: National Profiles. 3. Development without Abolition: Japan in the 21st Century. 4. A Lesson Learned: Capital Punishment in the Philippines. 5. The Vanguard: The Death Penalty and Political Change in South Korea. 6. The Other China: Capital Punishment in Taiwan. 7. The Political Origins of Chinese Death Penalty Exceptionalism. Part III: Lessons and Prospects. 8. Lessons from Asia. 9. The Pace of Change in Asia. Appendix A: Capital Punishment in the Hermit Kingdom

Capital punishment --- Abolition of capital punishment --- Death penalty --- Death sentence --- Criminal law --- Punishment --- Executions and executioners