1. See C. Boulanger and A. Sarat, Putting Culture into the Picture: Toward a Comparative Analysis of State Killing, in Sarat and Boulanger eds., The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005) 2–3, 10–11.
2. Ibid., 3; D.T. Johnson and F.E. Zimring, The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009) 27 (noting decline in executions).
3. See, for example, P. Carozza, “My Friend Is a Stranger”: The Death Penalty and the Global Ius Commune of Human Rights, Texas Law Review 81 (2003) 1036.
4. P. Hodgkinson, S. Kandelia, and L. Gyllensten, Capital Punishment: A Review and Critique of Abolition Strategies, in J. Yorke ed., Against the Death Penalty: International Initiatives and Implications (Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2008) 258–261.
5. R. Warden, Illinois Death Penalty Reform: How It Happened, What It Promises, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 95 (2005) 387.