Restricting the Death Penalty - Strategies Beyond Abolition
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The Oxford Human Rights Hub and the Death Penalty Research Unit are co-organising a comparative panel discussion on strategies to restrict the death penalty (strategies other than abolition). The discussion will bring together leading experts to examine the legal, institutional, and advocacy pathways through which different systems have narrowed the scope of capital punishment. The discussion will traverse issues of heightened procedural safeguards and stricter standards of proof, limiting eligibility through sentencing doctrines, proportionality review, and constitutional litigation in different jurisdictions. The panel will also explore the practical and normative consequences of these approaches, including their effects on arbitrariness, discrimination, due process, trial practices, and the administration of punishment. Part of the conversation will also involve evaluation of restrictionist strategies, the trade-offs they entail, and what meaningful “constraint” can and should look like in contemporary criminal justice.
Please note that this is primarily an in-person event. However, we recognise that for some this format might be difficult. If you inform us in advance, we can send you a link to enable you to watch online. Please contact Aradhana Cherupara Vadekkethil < aradhana.cheruparavadekkethil@some.ox.ac.uk >.
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