Death Penalty Research Unit Blog

29 September 2023

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

by: Kanishk Gaurav Pandey, Harshal Chhabra

25 September 2023

Artistic Resilience: Living on Death Row

by: Lucrezia Rizzelli

31 August 2023

Mapping foreign nationals on death row in Asia and the Middle East: A new database for researchers

by: Jocelyn Hutton

28 August 2023

Crude opinion polls on the death penalty distort public debate

by: Carolyn Hoyle

24 August 2023

Is the death penalty dying?

by: Ron Dudai

27 July 2023

Closing death row: The road to abolition in Ghana

by: Carolyn Hoyle, Saul Lehrfreund

21 July 2023

Penal parsimony, paternalism and postcolonialism: Women and the death penalty in Ireland

by: Lynsey Black

19 May 2023

Voices from Death Row: Pete Ouko's 18 years on death row in Kenya

by: David Rose

4 May 2023

A Torturous Practice: Prohibiting the Death Penalty’s Use Through a Peremptory Norm of International Law

by: John Bessler

17 March 2023

DPRU Q&As: Dr Monisha Lakshminarayanan, social work researcher in India

by: Monisha Lakshminarayanan

13 March 2023

“The moral, just and necessary demand”: The resurgence of the death penalty in Israel

by: Ron Dudai

11 January 2023

Papua New Guinea should become a regional advocate for abolition

by: Moses Sakai

10 January 2023

Domestic Violence and the Death Penalty in Uganda

by: Diana Peel

13 December 2022

Evidence from Trial Courts: A Sine Qua Non for Capital Sentencing Reform in India

by: Snehal Dhote

30 August 2022

DPRU Q&As: Dr Qadeer Alam, Assistant Inspector General of Prisons, Punjab, Pakistan

by: Qadeer Alam