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The Death Penalty Project shortlisted for The Charity Awards 2013

May 2013
Among The Charity Awards shortlist announced on Tuesday 7 May is a project that has helped hundreds of prisoners who faced execution to be removed from death row  The Charity Awards are one of the sector’s most prestigious schemes, and ... read more »

The global fight to end capital punishment, The Guardian, 6 May 2012

May 2012
“If we needed to hang someone tomorrow,” Martin Martinez, Trinidad and Tobago’s commissioner of prisons, says, grinning wolfishly, “we would grease up the gallows and buy some new rope.” Death by hanging is the penalty for anyone convicted of murder ... read more »

British lawyers to defend death row prisoners in West Indies, The Guardian, 13 June 2011

June 2011
British lawyers to defend death row prisoners in West Indies, The ... read more »