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16 January 2023

New DPRU research published in British Journal of Criminology

16 November 2022

DPRU publishes Annual Report 2021-22

Launch of new report on the death penalty in Kenya

Kenya: New opinion piece: 'As Africa rapidly turns away from capital punishment, is it time for Kenya to abolish this relic of a colonial past?'

22 February 2022

DPRU/DPP Joint Statement: Why Malaysia should abolish the mandatory death penalty as a prelude to ending capital punishment

20 October 2021

DPRU publishes Annual Report 2020-21

24 September 2021

Memorial event held for Professor Roger Hood

23 September 2021

Bangladesh death penalty publication cited in new UN report

22 September 2021

Malaysia: DPRU research featured in news article on women on death row

The DPP's Saul Lehrfreund interviewed in The Jewish Chronicle

Sierra Leone abolishes the death penalty

Indonesia: New opinion piece: ‘People may change mind about death penalty, but government?'

Launch of new report on death row prisoners in Bangladesh

DPRU partners The Death Penalty Project interviewed at CogX festival

Carolyn Hoyle presents at UN Human Rights Council panel on the death penalty

09 October 2020

Statement on 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty

Launch of new report showing support for abolition of the death penalty among Zimbabwean opinion leaders

Lady Edwina Grosvenor donates three years of funding for the 'Death Penalty Research Unit'