Death Penalty Research Unit Blog

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

Rallying lawmakers in the American South: An investigation of Virginia’s path to abolition

‘We don’t execute’: The neglected reality of condemned prisoners in ADF countries

The enigma of de facto abolition: Researching the death penalty in countries which do not execute

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

Artistic Resilience: Living on Death Row

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