The Union Government of India Introduces the Death Penalty for Child Rape
When news broke out two weeks ago of the horrors committed in the brutal rape of two girls in the small towns of ...
Death Penalty
A Theatre of Death: Challenging the Death Penalty in India (with Anup Surendranath)
The death penalty was written into the colonial penal code in India when the country was under British direct ...
The Hidden Cost of the Death Penalty in India
The death penalty needs to have significant social benefits, not attainable with the next most severe form of ...
Criminal Justice and the Death Penalty in India: An Opinion Study with 60 Former Supreme Court Judges
The Centre on the Death Penalty at National Law University, Delhi conducted an opinion study with 60 former Indian ...
Death Sentences in the Delhi Gang Rape Case: Brutality as Trumps
On 16th December 2012, a particularly disturbing case of gangrape and murder in New Delhi (‘the Delhi gangrape ...
Midazolam and the Lethal Injection – ‘In re: Ohio Execution Protocol Litigation’
On January 26 2017, a federal court in Ohio ruled that its current execution method is unconstitutional. This was ...
The Rise of the Death Penalty in the Middle East and North Africa
In the six years following the Arab Spring, there has been a notable increase in death sentences and executions in ...
Donald Trump is President: What are the Implications for the Death Penalty?
Prior to the election of Donald Trump, death penalty abolitionists were quietly confident that capital punishment ...
Killing Time: A Comment on the Case of Brandon Astor
On 3 February 2016, the State of Georgia executed a 72 year old man - Brandon Astor – by lethal injection. Astor ...
Forgotten Victims: Children of Parents Sentenced to Death or Executed
According to recent figures from Amnesty International, at least 1,634 executions took place worldwide last ...
The UK and Saudi Arabia: Human Rights and the Perils of Petrodollar Morality – Part I
The Human Rights and Democracy Report (2015) recently released by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office ...
UN Human Rights Council Adopts Belgian Resolution on Capital Punishment
On 1 October 2015, the UN Human Rights Council (‘UNHRC’) in Geneva adopted a resolution on capital punishment ...
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