Other Papers

Listed below are a number of papers written by eminent experts on the death penalty who are associated with the Death Penalty Project as executive directors, board members, trustees or advisors.

For further details about any of these papers, please contact the Death Penalty Project via info@deathpenaltyproject.org.

Papers from Workshop at the Judges and Prosecutors Training Institute, Taipei, Taiwan, 17th November 2009

  1. Parvais Jabbar, 'The Rarest of the Rare and the Worst of the Worst - Limiting Capital Punishment Pending Abolition'
  2. Saul Lehrfreund, 'The Progressive Development of International Human Rights Standards Restricting the Scope and Application of the Death Penalty Towards its Eventual Abolition'
  3. Roger Hood, 'Towards Worldwide Abolition of the Death Penalty: Progress and Prospects'.

Papers from the Workshops on Death Penalty Reform, part of the Sino-EU project on Moving the Debate Forward on the Death Penalty in China, sponsored by the Great Britain China Centre and the College of Criminal Law Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing and Guangzhou, 14th – 18th June 2009

  1. Roger Hood, “Developments on the Road to Abolition – A Worldwide Perspective”
  2. Saul Lehrfreund, “International Standards Restricting the Death Penalty and the Impact of International Human Rights Obligations on Domestic Law”
  3. Martin Wasik, “Devising Sentencing Guidelines in Serious Criminal Cases”

 

Papers from the Commonwealth Lawyers' Association, 25th Anniversary Conference, Montego Bay, Jamaica, October 2008: Session on Cruel and Unusual Punishment - Commonwealth Trends, Friday 17 October, 2008

  1. Edward Fitzgerald, "Constitutional and Human Rights Issues Arising from the Imposition of the Sentence of Life Imprisonment on Convicted Murderers".
  2. Roger Hood, "Capital Punishment: The Commonwealth in World Perspective".
  3. Keir Starmer, "Sentencing in Capital Cases".

 

Papers from the Workshop on Death Penalty Reform, part of the Sino-EU project on Moving the Debate Forward on the Death Penalty in China, sponsored by the Great Britain China Centre and the College of Criminal Law Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 25-26 August 2007 [for more information on Training click here].

  1. Roger Hood, "Abolition of Capital Punishment in the United Kingdom".
  2. Roger Hood, "Developments on the Road to Abolition: a Worldwide Perspective".
  3. Saul Lehrfreund, "The Application of International Human Rights Standards Restricting the Death Penalty".
  4. Michael L. Radelet, "Tinkering with the Machinery of Death".

 

Miscellaneous papers

  1. Saul Lehrfreund, "The Restriction of the Death Penalty and the Protection of Human Rights - the Caribbean Experience and Recent Developments in Africa", The Paul Jackson Annual Law Lecture, School of Law, University Of Reading, 23 February 2007.
  2. Saul Lehrfreund, Introductory Note to Francis Kafantayeni et al  V. The Attorney General of Malawi, Constitutional Case No. 12 of 2005 in the High Court of Malawi [April 27,2007], 46 ILM 564 (2007).
  3. Nicholas Blake and Saul Lehrfreund, “The Constitution Amendment Act 2002 and the Death Penalty: Legislation without Justification”, Caribbean Law Bulletin Vol. 7, No. 2 (2002)
  4. Saul Lehrfreund, “The Death Penalty and the continuing role of the Privy Council”, New Law Journal 149 (1999), pp. 1299 – 1301.
  5. Saul Lehrfreund, “International Legal Trends and the ‘Mandatory’ Death Penalty in the Commonwealth Caribbean”, Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal (2001), pp. 171 – 194.