Death Penalty Research Unit Blog

Artistic Resilience: Living on Death Row

Lethal injections for executions: Medics, ethics and the futile search for the least painful method

Mapping foreign nationals on death row in Asia and the Middle East: A new database for researchers

Crude opinion polls on the death penalty distort public debate

Is the death penalty dying?

Closing death row: The road to abolition in Ghana

Penal parsimony, paternalism and postcolonialism: Women and the death penalty in Ireland

Voices from Death Row: Pete Ouko's 18 years on death row in Kenya

A Torturous Practice: Prohibiting the Death Penalty’s Use Through a Peremptory Norm of International Law

DPRU Q&As: Dr Monisha Lakshminarayanan, social work researcher in India