News

28 July 2011, "Belize – Government withdraws Bill to eliminate Constitutional Challenges to Death Penalty – Ongoing Concern regarding New Proposed Amendments"

21 July 2011, "Belize – Government proposes Bill to eliminate Constitutional Challenges to the Death Penalty – A matter of Regional and International Concern"

14 July 2011, News Release: "23 Years After Being Convicted of Murder, Privy Council Orders Immediate Release of Prisoner Serving Life Imprisonment"

23 June 2011, News Release: "Privy Council Delivers Judgment in 2 Capital Cases"

16 June 2011, " Privy Council Rule that Mandatory Death Sentence for 'Felony' Murder is 'Cruel and Unusual Punishment' in Trinidad and Tobago and Quashes Death Sentence"

2 June 2011, "Singapore Court Dismisses Appeal: British Author Begins Prison Sentence for Writing Death Penalty Book"

10 March 2011, Justice at Last: The Longest Serving Woman on Death Row in Sierra Leone Released After 6 Years, AdvocAid Press Release

23 February 2011, Public Opinion on the Mandatory Death Penalty in Trinidad

23 February 2011, Public Opinion Survey on the Mandatory Death Penalty in Trinidad - A Summary of Main Findings by Professor Roger Hood and Dr Florence Seemungal

23 February 2011, Vacancies at the DPP- Communications Officer

13 January 2011, The Death Penalty Project 2nd Annual Lecture - Wilbert Rideau

3 November 2010: British Author Convicted of Contempt of Court in Singapore for Death Penalty Book

30 July 2010: Hundreds saved from the death penalty in Kenya – Court rules mandatory death penalty for murder to be unconstitutional

April 2010: British National Sentenced to Death in the Democratic Republic of Congo has Sentence Quashed by Military High Court

December 2009: Reform of the Death Penalty in Singapore - A Glimmer of Hope

4 November 2009: Three men convicted of murder released from prison after Privy Council quashes convictions - Francis Eiley, Ernest Savery and Lenton Polonio v The Queen

October 2009: Inter-American Court Ruling on Death Penalty in Barbados

25 September 2009: “Privy Council quashes death sentence”

25 September 2009: “Privy Council allows appeals in three death penalty cases”

August 2009: Kenya Commutes the Death Sentences of more than 4,000 prisoners

May 2009: Barbados’ Compliance with Inter-American Court Ruling

22 January 2009: Hundreds saved from the death penalty in Uganda – The end of the mandatory death penalty in Africa?

5 December 2008: Inter-American Court of Human Rights to hear death penalty case from Barbados

4 March 2008: Privy Council allows appeals in two key death penalty cases

20 December 2007: Inter-American Court Ruling on Death Penalty in Barbados

27 April 2007: 30 saved from the death penalty in Malawi - The beginning of the end of the mandatory death penalty in Africa

7 February 2007: Privy Council quashes death sentence of Grenada 14 and orders resentencing - life does not mean life

8 March 2006: Privy Council Abolishes Mandatory Death Penalty in the Bahamas

13 June 2005: 417 saved from the death penalty in Uganda - the end of the mandatory death penalty in Africa?