Life ImprisonmentLife imprisonment has replaced capital punishment as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. As a consequence, it has become the leading issue in international criminal justice reform. In the first global survey of prisoners serving life terms, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton argue for a human rightsbased reappraisal of this exceptionally harsh punishment. The authors estimate that nearly half a million people face life

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