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The Death Penalty: Can Delay Render Execution Unlawful?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Philip Sapsford
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Domestic and International Developments Relating to the Death Penalty
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 99 , 2005 , pp. 71 - 74
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Copyright ©American Society of International Law 2005

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References

1 1 A.C. 719 (P.C. 1983).

2 2 A.C. 1 (P.C. 1994).

3 1 W.L.R.1342, 1348 (1979).

4 As an example of the speed of appellate review in capital cases, consider the traitor William Joyce was convicted on September 19, 1945; his appeal was dismissed on November 7, 1945. The House of Lords dismissed a further appeal and announced their decision at the conclusion of argument on December 18. Joyce was executed on January 3, 1946 before reasons were delivered in February 1946.

5 Pratt V. Attorney General for Jamaica, 2 A.C. 1 (P.C. 1994).

6 Riley V. Attorney General of Jamaica, 1 A.C. 719 (1983),

7 Lackey v. Texas, 514 U.S. 1045 (1995) (Stevens, J., dissenting from the denial of cert.) (citations omitted),

8 408 U.S. 238 (1972).

9 Ahmad v. Wigen 726 F.Supp. 389, 414 (E.D.N.Y. 1989).

10 Benjamin N. Cardozo , Law and Literature 36 (1931).