The Death Penalty Project

News

4th 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

To read this report please click on the following link: 25th September 2009: Privy Council quashes death sentence

To read this report please click on the following link: 25th 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

22nd 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?