The death penalty : a hazard to a sustainable development of criminal justice? / Death as punishment / Why the death penalty is disappearing / The American enlightenment : eliminating capital punishment in the United States / Clear and ever-present dangers? : redefining "closure" in a post 9-11 world / Why does Japan retain the death penalty? : nine hypotheses / Death penalty moratorium in South Korea : norms, institutions and leadership / Why Taiwan's de facto moratorium was established and lost / The norms of death : on attitudes to capital punishment in China / A knotty tale : understanding the death penalty in India / Islamic visions for the abolition of the death penalty / An overview of the ongoing debate on the death penalty in Morocco / Abolition of the death penalty : Indonesia at a crossroads / Criminal justice, sustainablilty and the death penalty / Staying optimistic