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PART I. ISSUES AND METHODS; 1. Asia and the Future of CapitalPunishment; 2. Varieties of Capital Punishment in Contemporary Part II:National Profiles; 3. Development without Abolition: Japan in the 21stCentury; 4. A Lesson Learned: Capital Punishment in the Philippines; 5. TheVanguard: The Death Penalty and Political Change in South Korea; 6. The OtherChina: Capital Punishment in Taiwan; 7. The Political Origins of ChineseDeath Penalty Exceptionalism; PART III: LESSONS AND PROSPECTS; 8. Lessonsfrom Asia; 9. The Pace of Change in Asia; Appendix A: Capital Punishment inthe Hermit Kingdom of North Korea; Appendix B: One Country, Two Systems:Death Penalty Policy in Hong Kong and Macao; Appendix C: China Lite? TheDeath Penalty in Vietnam; Appendix D: Death Sentences and Executions inThailand; Appendix E: The Death Penalty in Singapore; Appendix F: The DeathPenalty in India; Appendix G: State-Killing in Asia: On the Relationshipbetween Judicial and Extra-Judicial Executions; Notes