Death Penalty Research Unit Blog

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

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