Life Matters

Asia has 29 jurisdictions, 26 histories, 26 cultures, 26 ways of governing but there's one thing that is very common across the vast region—the death penalty.

The stats are unequivocal: up to 95 per cent of the world's executions take place in Asia, with China carrying out the most.

We hear about new research that points to some real changes.

Guests

Professor David Johnson
University of Hawaii Visiting academic, Australian Research Council of Excellence in Policing and Security, ANU

Publications

Title: The Next Frontier: National Devlopment, Political Change and the Death Penalty in Asia
Author: Johnson, David & Zimring, Frank
Publisher: Oxford University Press
*Will be published in November, 2008

Presenter

Richard Aedy

Producer

Jackie May

Story Researcher and Producer

Kerrie Jean Ross

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