Otros títulos de la Colección de estudios penales Marino Barbero Santos 1. Eurodelitos. El Derecho penal económico 12 en la Unión Europea. Klauss Tiedemann, dir. Adán Nieto Martín, coord. 2. Protección penal del consumidor en la Death penalty: A cruel and inhuman punishment is an Unión Europea. Nicolás García Rivas, coord. academic contribution by Academics for abolition aimed at fostering the debate launched by the United Nations General 3. Fraude y Corrupción en el Derecho penal económico europea. Eurodelitos de Assembly in its resolution 62/149 on 18 December 2007, Death Penalty: corrupción y fraude. calling for a worldwide moratorium on executions by 2015, and A Cruel and Inhuman Punishment Luis Arroyo Zapatero, coord. continued by the upcoming review process of the UN’s Adán Nieto Martín, coord. Millennium Development Goals (MDG). It is mainly a 4. La orden de detención y entrega europea. compilation of papers written by the speakers at the Seminar L. Arroyo Zapatero, W. Schabas y K. Takayama (edit.) Luis Arroyo Zapatero, dir. M. Muñoz de Morales (Coord.) Adán Nieto Martín, dir. “Against cruel and inhuman punishment and death penalty”, 5. El derecho penal de la Unión Europea. which took place at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Situación actual y perspectivas de futuro. Fernando, in Madrid, on 9 June 2013, on the eve of the 5th Luis Arroyo Zapatero, dir. World Congress against the death penalty. The book deals Adán Nieto Martín, dir. with current issues of the process towards abolition as the Marta Muñoz de Morales Romero, coord. lack of evidence about the deterrence effect of death penalty 6. Derecho penal y disciplinario militar. Death Penalty: A Cruel and Inhuman Punishment Francisco Javier de León Villalba, coord. and its consideration as a cruel and inhuman punishment. Together with the editors, the contribution includes studies, 7. El principio de ne bis in idem en el Derecho penal europeo e internacional. among others, of H.J. Albrecht, Gabrio Forti, Roger Hood, Luis Arroyo Zapatero, coord. Salim Himnat and Sergio García Ramírez. The Academic Adán Nieto Martín, coord. International Network against the Death Penalty (REPECAP) 8. El Derecho penal entre la guerra y la paz. dedicates this book to the International Commission against the Stefano Manacorda, dir. Death Penalty (ICDP) chaired by Federico Mayor Zaragoza. Adán Nieto Martín, dir. Manuel Maroto Calatayud,coord. Daniel Scheunemann de Souza, coord. 9. European Criminal Law: An Overview. Luis Arroyo Zapatero, dir. Adán Nieto Martín, dir. Marta Muñoz Morales, coord. 10. Piratas, mercenarios, soldados, jueces y policías: nuevos desafíos del Derecho penal europeo e internacional. Luis Arroyo Zapatero, dir. Adán Nieto Martín, dir. Marta Muñoz de Morales, coord. Matías Bailone, coord. (edit.) Takayama Schabas y K. W. Zapatero, Arroyo L. M.Muñoz de Morales (Coord.) 11. Cuestiones sobre el derecho sancionador de UCLM TIRANT LO BLANCH la Guardia Civil (penales y disciplinarias). tirant lo blanch ISBN 978-84-8427-852-8 ISBN 978-84-9086-225-4 Francisco Javier de León Villalba 12. Death Penalty: A Cruel and Inhuman Punishment. Luis Arroyo Zapatero, edti. 9788484 278252 9788490 862254 William Schabas, edit. Kanako Takayama, edit. Marta Muñoz de Morales, coord. DEATH PENALTY: A CRUEL AND INHUMAN PUNISHMENT DEATH PENALTY: A CRUEL AND INHUMAN PUNISHMENT Arroyo Zapatero, L. / Schabas, W. / Takayama, K. (Edit.) Muñoz de Morales, M. (Coord.) Cuenca, 2013 DEATH Penalty: A Cruel and Inhuman Punishment / Arroyo Zapatero, L., Schabas, W. Takayama, K. (Edit.) ; Muñoz de Morales, M. (Coord.). – Cuenca : Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 2013 144 p.– (Marino Barbero Santos ; 12) ISBN 978-84-9044-113-8 1. Derecho penal 2. Pena de muerte 3. Derechos Humanos I. Arroyo Zapatero, L. ed. II. Schabas, W. ed. III. Schabas, W. ed. IV. Muñoz de Morales, M. coord. V. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, ed. VI. Serie 343.25 342.7 LNF LNDC Este libro ha sido financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación del Gobierno de España a través de la Acción Complementaria DER 2009-08240-E/JURI «Abolición o moratoria universal de la pena capital». Cualquier forma de reproducción, distribución, comunicación pública o transformación solo puede ser realizada con la autorización de EDICIONES DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE CASTILLA-LA MANCHA, salvo excepción prevista por la ley. Diríjase a CEDRO (Centro Español de Derechos Reprográficos – www.cedro.org), si necesita fotocopiar o escanear algún fragmento de esta obra. © de los textos e imágenes: sus autores. © de la edición: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Edita: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Director: Juan Antonio Mondéjar Jiménez Colección de estudios penales MARINO BARBERO SANTOS nº 12 Dirigida por Luis A. 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TABLE OF CONTENTS Editors’ Foreword ............................................................................................. 9 The Abolition of the Death Penalty: A Question of Respect for Human Rights Mayor Zaragoza, Federico .......................................................................... 11 Introductory Review of the Current Situation as Regards Progress Towards the Abolition of the Death Penalty and Possible Next Stages Hood, Roger ................................................................................................ 19 Hard-core Executioners Schabas, William.......................................................................................... 23 The Death Penalty, Deterrence and Policy Making Albrecht, Hans-Jörg ..................................................................................... 29 Abolition of Death Penalty for Drug Crimes Arroyo Zapatero, Luis .................................................................................. 45 Public Opinion and Punishment in Japan Takayama, Kanako ....................................................................................... 57 Towards the Complete Abolition of Capital Punishment in Morocco: Possibilities and Constraints Hmimnat, Salim . ......................................................................................... 69 7 Table of contents Concerning the Death Penalty Abolition: a Long Road García Ramírez, Sergio ................................................................................ 89 Human Cruelty in Literature Forti, Gabrio ................................................................................................ 97 Francisco de Goya: Against the Cruelty of the Penal System and the Death Penalty Arroyo Zapatero, Luis ................................................................................. 127 8 EDITors’ FOREWORD For a Humanist Criminal Policy: Against the Death Penalty Throughout 2013, intense activity has taken place at the International Academic Network against the Death Penalty, established at the initiative of the International Society for Social Defence (ISSD) and with the support of the Asociation Interna- tionale de Droit Penal (AIDP), to accompany the action of the International Com- mission against the Death Penalty (www.icomdp.org ), chaired by Federico Mayor Zaragoza and including such leading figures as Robert Badinter and Ruth Dreyfus. In the first place, the V World Congress was held in Madrid in the month of June, organized by the World Coalition against the Death Penalty, in support of which the Academic Network organized a symposium at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, at which among others the problems of deterrence and the consideration of the death penalty as a cruel and inhuman punishment were studied. Hans-Jörg Albrecht, Gabrio Forti, Roger Hood, William Schabas, Sandra Babcock, Adán Nieto, Eduardo Demetrio, Rosario Vicente, Francesco Viganò, Jon Yorke, Mercedes Alonso, Salomao Shecaira, María Acale, Mercelo Aebi, Sergio García Ramírez, Luis Luís Niño, Anabela Miranda, José Luis de la Cuesta, Stefano Mana- corda, Luigi Foffani and Jacobo Dopico all participated as speakers, among others. Also present at the event were the Secretary of State, Gonzalo Benito, the Deacon of the College of Lawyers of Madrid, Sonia Gumpert, and the former President of the Government of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. In forthcoming weeks, a book will be published with a large number of the texts. In particular, Luigi Foffani represented the Network at an important event jointly organized by the Universidad de Padua and the International Commission, and a 9 Luis ARROYO, William SCHABAS, Kanako TAKAYAMA further one-day conference was held at the Helsinki-Spain Foundation at Madrid with the participation of Marta Muñoz de Morales. As regards the international day against the death penalty, on 10th October, one- day conferences were organized by INACIPE in Mexico, with Rafael Estrada and Sergio García Ramírez, in Bogota, at the Universidad Externado of Colombia, with Jaime Bernal Cuellar and Paula Ramírez, and at San Juan de Puerto Rico, with events at the Universidad InterAmericana and the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, as well as at the School of Fine Arts with the extraordinary exhibition of Antonio Martorell, an artist at the Universidad de Puerto Rico, where ten engravings