Death Penalty Research Unit Blog Back to Faculty of Law Blogs KeywordsDeath PenaltyUnited States More filters Less filters 24 July 2025 From exoneration to execution: Japan fails to learn from historic miscarriage of justice case by: Saul Lehrfreund, Kate Arthur 24 July 2025 A permanent maid moratorium: The death penalty in the Middle East and female migrant workers from Indonesia by: Dr Lucy Harry, Jocelyn Hutton 22 July 2025 Five decades without executions: Sri Lanka’s suspended death penalty by: Anmol Dikshit 18 July 2025 A decade on death row in Kenya by: Willis Nandi 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 One by: Takeshi Kaneko 14 November 2024 DPRU Q&As: Takeshi Kaneko, Lawyer, Japan: Part Two 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 Load More