The Death Penalty Project

The Death Penalty Project is an international human rights organisation which provides free legal representation to the many individuals still facing the death penalty in the Caribbean and Africa, and works to ensure compliance with regional and international human rights standards.

Since 1992, the project has saved the lives of more than 500 prisoners who would almost certainly otherwise have faced execution. The project has also continued to highlight the real risk of tragic and irreversible mistakes being made in the application of the death penalty. Since its inception, the project has ensured that more than 50 miscarriages of justice cases have been redressed, resulting in convictions for murder and sentences of death being overturned.

The Death Penalty Project undertakes a wide range of complementary activities to achieve these aims.