Our work is driven by the real, human impacts of capital punishment systems. In their own words and through their stories, read reflections on challenges, hope and resilience from the people we work with.
For 562 days, or 13,488 hours, British citizen Youssouf Ezangi lived under a sentence of death in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In March 2026, a diplomatic agreement between the British and Congolese governments secured his transfer back to the United Kingdom.
Seven stories, thousands more: Life After Death Row Exhibition
We recently exhibited the work of renowned anthropologist and documentarian Mosfiqur Rahman Johan at the prestigious Whitechapel Gallery. Together, we showcased the resilience of seven individuals wrongly convicted and subjected to the horrors of death row in Bangladesh.
Evanson Mitcham was sentenced to death for murder in 2002 and released in summer 2025. Speaking to Evanson in November, five months after his release, he remembers, to the day, how long he spent on death row during his time in prison: 16 years, 3 months, 26 days. “If you’re not strong, it will break you,” he told us. Evanson…
Earl Pratt and Ivan Morgan both spent 14 years awaiting execution in Jamaica. In recognition of the extreme mental anguish people on death row experience, their case established a legal precedent limiting the amount of time a person can be kept under sentence of death. Hundreds of people across the Caribbean have been saved from execution as a result.
Susan spent almost a decade under sentence of death in Uganda. She became the lead applicant in a case that led to the abolition of the mandatory death penalty in the country and was released in 2016.
Joshua French is a dual British-Norwegian national who spent eight years in appalling conditions under sentence of death in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In 2017, he was eventually released and returned home on humanitarian grounds.
Betty* tragically lost her daughter in an accident. She was interrogated by police in a language she barely spoke and prevented from seeing a lawyer until the first day of her trial. She was then sentenced to death.
