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Among The Charity Awards shortlist announced on Tuesday 7 May is a project that has helped hundreds of prisoners who faced execution to be removed from death row.

The recent execution of three death row prisoners in Japan in February this year made last week’s launch of the Death Penalty Project report into the use of capital punishment in Japan all the more timely.

The Death Penalty Project has produced a unique handbook focusing on forensic psychiatry in capital cases.

10 December is International Human Rights Day.

The DPP Five Year Report was shortlisted at the International Content Marketing Awards in the “Best Annual Report” category.

In July 2012, the Government of Singapore announced in Parliament that new laws would be drafted to abolish the mandatory imposition of the death penalty for some categories of drug trafficking offences and homicide offences.

An article published in The Guardian detailing our work wins the Bar Council legal reporting awards.

Mr. Taitt was convicted of murder in 2008 in the High Court of Trinidad and sentenced to the mandatory death penalty.

A High Court ruling in Nigeria that the mandatory death sentence by hanging or firing squad is unconstitutional has been welcomed by London-based human rights organisation the Death Penalty Project (DPP).

Following proposals from the Singaporean government to restrict the use of the death penalty, including legislative changes to abolish the mandatory death penalty for some categories of drug trafficking offences and homicide offences, the Malaysian government had announced its intention to follow and to consider legislative changes to the mandatory death penalty for drug offences.

The Executive Directors and Professor Roger Hood travelled to Malaysia and met with the EU delegation, the Bar Council of Malaysia, National Human Rights Commission (SUHAKAM) and NGOs including HAKAM.

The Executive Directors were invited to participate and speak at a conference organised by the International Commission Against the Death Penalty.