Death Penalty Research Unit Blog

DPRU Q&As: Timothy Bryant, Lawyer, Kenya

DPRU Q&As: Chris Kerkering, Katiba Institute, Kenya

Abolition, retention and capital punishment in twentieth-century India

Witness: An Insider's Narrative of the Carceral State

Treason and the death penalty in sub-Saharan Africa

DPRU Q&As: Fulgence Massawe, Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC), Tanzania

The DPRU honours Robert Badinter (1928-2024)

Two damnable trilogies: The U.S. Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on ‘method-of-execution’ challenges and resultant botched and failed executions in Alabama

The politics behind Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act

The death penalty and scrupulous respect for the right to a fair trial