Supporting the amendment bill in #Ghana, we had the privilege of being able to offer expert knowledge to Ghana's Constitutional, Legal Parliamentary Affairs Committee alongside leading academic experts in the field, incl Professor @CarolynHoyle1 of Death Penalty Research Unit, Oxford at University of Oxford

🔗tinyurl.com/yc6y3zd7 Support from the Commonwealth Lawyers Association (Commonwealth Lawyers) has been an important part of Ghana's pathway to abolition of the #deathpenalty. John Mckendrick KC (@McKendrickKC) of the CLA's Executive Committee said:

🔗tinyurl.com/yc6y3zd7 🇬🇭Co-author of Ghana's most robust public opinion research on attitudes to the death penalty, Dr Kofi Boakye (Kofi Boakye) said the following on Ghana's historic achievement:

This week, Ghana abolished the death penalty for all ordinary crimes, part of a trend towards abolition that is sweeping sub-Saharan Africa In this post, @CarolynHoyle1 and Saul Lehrfreund reflect on DPRU and DPP's collaborative work towards this goal: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/death-penalty-…

🚨DPP INTERVIEW: We are pleased to share our latest website article, an interview with Mr Francis-Xavier Sosu Francis-Xavier Sosu, whose private members bills abolished the #deathpenalty in Ghana. Read here: deathpenaltyproject.org/dpp-interview-…

The IBAHRI commends #Ghana for abolishing the #deathpenalty for all crimes except high treason, while encouraging Ghana to work for total abolition. Francis-Xavier Sosu, MP & #humanrights #lawyer, is applauded for bringing the Bills before the Parliament. tinyurl.com/5n6kpbsx

Ghana becomes the 124th nation globally to abolish the death penalty. On July 25, 2023, Ghana's Parliament abolished the death penalty for all ordinary crimes (including murder, genocide, piracy, and smuggling etc) Legal Resources Centre, Ghana DeathPenaltyProject #DeathPenalty lrcghana.org/press-release-…

Excellent work by Saul Lehrfreund & others on this - let's hope Ghana keeps going to catch up with Sierra Leone by abolishing the death penalty entirely

🇬🇭President Nana Akufo-Addo has assented to the bills abolishing the #deathpenalty in #Ghana. Francis-Xavier Sosu UK in Ghana 🇬🇧🇬🇭 Australian High Commission, Ghana Death Penalty Research Unit, Oxford @CarolynHoyle1 Amnesty International Ghana Legal Resources Centre, Ghana CDD-Ghana POS Foundation ACILA Commonwealth Lawyers Afua Hirsch Saul Lehrfreund ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/…

Our Dir. (Mitigation) Maitreyi Misra was a panelist at a seminar in Taiwan on ‘#Dignity & #Justice for All: Protecting the #RighttoLife’, with other intl. experts. She shared our research findings from the #DeathPenalty India Report and Deathworthy. DeathPenaltyProject 静静💖静静是谁❓

We are proud to facilitate the collaboration between NIMHANS, Bengaluru & National Law University Delhi for a 2-day interdisciplinary forensic psychiatry workshop at NIMHANS! Resource persons for the workshop are Maitreyi Misra, Prof. Suresh Bada Math, Dr. Naveen Kumar, Saul Lehrfreund & Dr. Richard Latham.

Thrilled to collaborate with the Maharashtra Institute of #MentalHealth Maharashtra Institute of Mental Health, Pune for a #workshop to discuss issues of fitness to stand trial, insanity defence & sentencing! The resource persons are Maitreyi Misra, Saul Lehrfreund, Dr. Richard Latham, Dr. IS Netto and Dr. Karde.

When does a trial go so wrong that a conviction should be overturned? Today, our client Nardis Maynard will challenge his conviction for murder before the Privy Council. He is represented by Siobhan Grey, and Richard Vardon of @18stjohn & local counsel Talibah V O Byron of Byron Chambers.

📢A British National is one of 51 individuals facing a potential death sentence before a military tribunal in the #DRC who recently lifted a 20-year moratorium on executions. deathpenaltyproject.org/press-release-… End Death Penalty Amnesty International Death Penalty Research Unit, Oxford FIACAT Human Rights at FCDO ECPM (Ensemble contre la peine de mort)

Yesterday, a court in Japan acquitted 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, who spent 46 years facing execution Saul Lehrfreund of DeathPenaltyProject reflects on the case and its lessons for Japan's criminal justice system blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/death-penalty-…

*NEW* DPRU Q&A interview The DPRU's Daniel Cullen speaks to lawyer Takeshi Kaneko about Japan's death penalty system and his ongoing efforts to challenge it through the use of litigation: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/death-penalty-…

Today President Mnangagwa of #Zimbabwe signed legislation ending the death penalty. Parvais Jabbar DeathPenaltyProject & Carolyn Hoyle Death Penalty Research Unit, Oxford track the path to abolition theconversation.com/zimbabwe-scrap… via The Conversation Africa

📢 DEATH PENALTY ABOLISHED! Today, Zimbabwe has abolished the #deathpenalty almost 20 years after its last execution. Parliament passed a private member’s bill, introduced by MP Edwin Mushoriwa-Dzivaresekwa MP, which ensures Zimbabwe can no longer impose death sentences. This makes Zimbabwe the

On 16 January, Taiwan carried out its first execution in almost five years. The execution, only months after the Constitutional Court promised to safeguard defendants’ & prisoners’ rights in capital cases, appears to be a cynical abuse of political power. blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/death-penalty-…

We had the honour of hosting Saul Lehrfreund MBE Saul Lehrfreund , Co-Executive Director of the Death Penalty Project. The visit provided an important opportunity for dialogue on Nigeria’s evolving position on the use of the death penalty. During our deliberations, we reflected