Death Penalty Research Unit Blog

19 May 2025

Exploring punitive populism and performative justice in India’s trial courts

by: Simran Chawdhary

2 April 2025

Death penalty sentencing in India: The futility of introducing safeguards for an inhuman punishment

by: Lakshmi Menon

8 March 2025

International Women's Day: Foreign national women and the postcolonial death penalty

by: Dr Lucy Harry

19 February 2025

Turkish complicity in the Iranian death penalty: The case of Amir Tataloo

by: Bharat Malkani

3 February 2025

Reflections on the persistence of the U.S. federal death penalty

by: Aimee Clesi

21 January 2025

Taiwan: The execution of Huang Lin-kai – a cruel and illegal killing

by: Saul Lehrfreund, Carolyn Hoyle

8 January 2025

Celebrating abolition in Zimbabwe twenty years after its last execution

by: Carolyn Hoyle, Parvais Jabbar

14 November 2024

DPRU Q&As: Takeshi Kaneko, Lawyer, Japan: Part Two

by: Takeshi Kaneko

14 November 2024

DPRU Q&As: Takeshi Kaneko, Lawyer, Japan: Part One

by: Takeshi Kaneko

30 September 2024

Form without function: The surprising irrelevance of legal representation in Chinese death penalty trials

by: Michelle Miao

27 September 2024

Hakamada case: World's longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in Japan

by: Saul Lehrfreund

18 September 2024

DPRU Q&As: Essen Lee, Lawyer, Taiwan: Part Two

by: Essen Lee

18 September 2024

DPRU Q&As: Essen Lee, Lawyer, Taiwan: Part One