“Towards the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Africa: A Human Rights Perspective” is a new book by Lilian Chenwi that examines the history of capital punishment in Africa and the continent’s emerging trend away from the death penalty. In her book, Chenwi details the impact that both international human rights organizations and international treaties have had on shifting African views about capital punishment. This resource includes chapters on the history and current state of capital punishment in Africa, the right to life in the continent, and a review of the prohibition of cruel and inhumane punishment in Africa. Chenwi is a human rights attorney and senior researcher in the Socio-Economic Rights Project of the Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape. (Book description, May 15, 2007; pub. by Pretoria University Law Press, 2007). See International Death Penalty and Books.
