Foreigners on America’s Death Rows: The Legal Combat Over Access To A Consul
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- Synopsis
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Capital cases involving foreigners as defendants are a serious source of contention between the United States and foreign governments. By treaty, foreigner defendants must be informed upon arrest that they may contact a consul of their home country for assistance, yet police and judges in the United States are lax in complying.
Foreigners on America's Death Row investigates the arbitrary way United States police departments, courts, and the Department of State implement well-established rights of foreigners arrested in the US. Foreign governments have taken the United States into international courts, which have ruled that the US must enforce the treaty. The United States has ignored these rulings. As a result, foreigners continue to be executed after a legal process that their home governments justifiably find to be flawed. When one country ignores the treaty rights of another as well as the decisions of international courts, the established order of international relations is threatened. Illustrates how the US government has given courts implausible arguments in order to allow state governments to execute foreigners in circumstances that violate the human rights of those foreigners and treaty obligations owed to foreign governments.
Helps readers to understand why foreign governments are angry when their nationals are executed in the United States.
Explains how the United States have become a pariah in the international community for failing to follow treaty rules that other countries follow.
- Copyright:
- 2018
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781108642255
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781108428231, 9781108428231
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 06/16/18
- Copyrighted By:
- John Quigley
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.