Welcome to The Death Penalty Project.

For nearly twenty years the Death Penalty Project has worked to promote and protect the human rights of those facing the death penalty. The organisation's main objectives are:

• To provide free and effective legal representation and assistance to those individuals who are facing the death penalty;
• To promote the restriction of the death penalty in line with international minimum legal requirements;
• To uphold and develop human rights standards and the criminal law; and
• To promote increased awareness and greater dialogue with key stakeholders on the death penalty.

Although we operate in all jurisdictions where the death penalty remains an enforceable punishment, our actions are concentrated on Anglophone Caribbean countries which retain the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London as their final Court of Appeal and in other Commonwealth countries, principally in Anglophone Africa.

To date the Death Penalty Project has saved the lives of more than 500 men and women in Caribbean and African countries, who would almost certainly otherwise have been executed by hanging.

More than fifty death row prisoners who failed to receive fair trials and were the victims of miscarriages of justice have had their convictions quashed.

The mandatory death penalty has now been removed in nine Caribbean countries as well as Uganda and Malawi.