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Executive Directors Invited to Speak at the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs
As part of the French Government’s campaign to abolish the death penalty, the Executive Directors were invited to participate and speak at an event organised by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
DPP’s Work and its Impact Recognised in the UN Secretary-General Report 2012, ‘Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty’
In May, the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights contacted us requesting submissions to assist them in drafting a Report on behalf of the Secretary-General to the UN General Assembly in support of a “Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty”.
DPP Welcomes Singapore Plan to Restrict the Death Penalty
The Government of Singapore is to abolish the mandatory imposition of the death penalty for certain offences – following a review that was partly shaped by a pair of London human rights lawyers.
The Government of Ghana has issued a White Paper on the Constitutional Review Report, supporting the recommendation of the Constitutional Review Commission that the death penalty should be abolished in Ghana and be replaced with life imprisonment.
Press Release: Murder Conviction Overturned and Death Sentence Quashed for Prisoner in St. Vincent and the Grenadines
The Death Penalty Project, a London-based human rights legal organisation, has assisted Kay Bacchus-Browne, a local attorney, in a successful appeal on behalf of a prisoner who suffers from mental illness and has been held on death row in St Vincent and the Grenadines since 2008.
London Lawyers Overturn Caribbean Death Row Conviction
The Death Penalty Project, a London-based human rights legal organisation, has won a groundbreaking appeal case involving a prisoner who has been held on death row in the Caribbean since 2005.
Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal Rule on Right to Appeal in Capital Cases in St. Kitts and Nevis and Order Acquittal for Death Row Prisoner and Quash Three Other Death Sentences
In a judgment delivered on 21st March 2012, the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal struck down as unconstitutional a statute providing time limits on the right to appeal in capital cases.
The Global Fight to End Capital Punishment, The Guardian, 6 May 2012
'If we needed to hang someone tomorrow,' Martin Martinez, Trinidad and Tobago’s commissioner of prisons, says, grinning wolfishly, 'we would grease up the gallows and buy some new rope.'
Belize – Government Withdraws Bill to Eliminate Constitutional Challenges to Death Penalty – Ongoing Concern Regarding New Proposed Amendments
The Government of Belize has announced the withdrawal of the 8th Constitution Amendment Bill, which proposed amendments to Section 7 of the Constitution prohibiting torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Belize – Government Proposes Bill to Eliminate Constitutional Challenges to the Death Penalty – A Matter of Regional and International Concern
The Government of Belize has presented a Bill to Parliament containing a raft of constitutional amendments designed to eliminate future legal challenges to the implementation of the death penalty.
