*NEW* DPRU Blog post Lakshmi Menon of Project 39A (now The Square Circle Clinic, NALSAR) on the Indian Supreme Court's attempts to reform sentencing practices in capital cases, and the futility of introducing safeguards for an inhuman punishment: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/death-penalty-…

Report launch alert!🚨🚨🚨 Amnesty International’s flagship report, Death Sentences and Executions 2024, will launch on Tuesday 8 April 2025. This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2024. Be sure to check it out! Don't forget

New Amnesty International report on #deathpenalty in 2024 shows that global executions hit highest figure since 2015, as over 1,500 people were executed. However, countries carrying out executions remained at the lowest point on record for the second consecutive year amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

Last week, we were honoured to attend the University of Oxford’s Vice-Chancellor’s Awards, where, together with our partners at the Death Penalty Research Unit, we were nominated for the Making a Difference Globally Award. The nomination recognised our collaborative work to end

*NEW* DPRU Blog post Lawyer and Oxford Criminology MSc candidate Simran Chawdhary on punitive populism and performative justice in India’s capital trials, and how abolitionist advocacy can reframe justice beyond retribution: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/death-penalty-…

We are on the lookout for a Summer Intern! This is an exciting opportunity for a enthusiastic, dynamic and motivated final year university student or recent graduate who intends to work in the charity sector and/or has a particular interest in human rights and international

Two years since repeal of the mandatory #deathpenalty in Malaysia came into force, Amnesty International has published its preliminary assessment of how sentencing discretion has been developing in #Malaysia criminal justice system amnesty.org/en/documents/a…

*NEW* DPRU blog post Willis Nandi of CrimeSiPoaKenya shares his experience of spending 10 years on death row in Kenya "When I found out in the courtroom that I could be sentenced to death, I fainted in the dock." blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/death-penalty-…

"The death penalty in Kenya is literally a mental torture. It torments you and your family. The suffering is so severe, waiting for something that isn’t going to happen, that prisoners would demand to be executed."

A recent #execution in #Japan prompts Saul Lehrfreund & Kate Arthur DeathPenaltyProject to call for a moratorium on executions as a first step to abolishing the #DeathPenalty blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/death-penalty-…

Travel bans: a form of state paternalism, doing little to address structural causes of women’s migration, nor providing adequate protections for domestic workers, including those sentenced to death in a foreign jurisdiction. Lucy Harry & Jocelynnepali blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/death-penalty-…

My book "Outsourcing Crimmigration Control: Digital Borders, the IOM, and Biometric Statehood" is now out at Oxford Academic. Relevant to anyone working on border control, digital surveillance, and criminal justice. The best part? It's free! Download here: academic.oup.com/book/60696?log…

In a new article for the Journal of Human Rights Practice, DPRU Director Professor Carolyn Hoyle and Parvais Jabbar of DeathPenaltyProject reflect on the collaborative process leading up to Zimbabwe's abolition of the death penalty in December 2024: law.ox.ac.uk/content/news/n…

Do check out the DPRU Research Paper Series | Faculty of Law Our latest paper: Daniel Pascoe and Mai Sato, 'The death penalty, due process violations, murder by decree and extra-legal killings: A typology of 'murder by governments'' law.ox.ac.uk/death-penalty-…

Excellent new research paper by Daniel Pascoe and Mai Sato (@drmaisato.bsky.social) #DeathPenalty & extra judicial #executions

DPRU and DPP to launch new report on the death penalty under abolitionist de facto (ADF) status. law.ox.ac.uk/content/news/d… Death Penalty Research Unit, Oxford DeathPenaltyProject Parvais Jabbar UN Human Rights Volker Türk Council of Europe #ClareOvey