Resources

In 2021, The Death Penalty Project and the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, in partnership with the Australian National University commissioned Prof. Carolyn Hoyle, Director of The Death Penalty Research Unit, at the University of Oxford, to undertake research in order to provide accurate data on attitudes towards the death penalty in Kenya and facilitate a constructive conversation on…

In 2021, The Death Penalty Project and the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, in partnership with the Australian National University commissioned Prof. Carolyn Hoyle, Director of The Death Penalty Research Unit, at the University of Oxford, to undertake research in order to provide accurate data on attitudes towards the death penalty in Kenya and facilitate a constructive conversation on…

This report provides a review of our work with partners and colleagues across 2021 and our upcoming work in 2022.

In 2021, The Death Penalty Project and the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP) commissioned Professor Carolyn Hoyle at the University of Oxford and Professor Shiow-duan Hawang at Soochow University, Taipei to carry out a study exploring Taiwanese legislators’ attitudes towards capital punishment. The study reveals that the majority of Taiwan’s legislators would like to see the death…

Trinidad and Tobago is now one of the few nations in the world that retains in its law the mandatory death penalty for murder, even though there have been no executions for murder for over 20 years— since 1999. In 2015, 21 men were mandatorily sentenced to death in Trinidad and Tobago and, at present, it is believed that about…

In order to investigate the important question of why the countries of the Eastern Caribbean and Barbados are yet to abolish the death penalty, despite not carrying out executions for many years, The Death Penalty Project carried out research, the first of its kind, in the 6 member states of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) as well as…

Between 2017–2019 The Death Penalty Project, our local partner, Veritas, commissioned leading academics from The University of Reading and The Death Penalty Research Unit, at the University of Oxford, to undertake research to provide the accurate and authoritative data on attitudes towards the death penalty in Zimbabwe.  Interviews with 42 opinion leaders and a public opinion survey of a representative…

In 2019-20, The Death Penalty Project, in partnership with LBH Masyarakat and the University of Indonesia, commissioned Prof. Carolyn Hoyle of the Death Penalty Research Unit at the University of Oxford to conduct a thorough survey of attitudes towards the death penalty in Indonesia. The research aimed to better understand attitudes and facilitate a nuanced discourse.  This briefing note presents…

In 2019-20, The Death Penalty Project, in partnership with LBH Masyarakat and the University of Indonesia, commissioned Professor Carolyn Hoyle, of The Death Penalty Research Unit at the University of Oxford to conduct research investigating attitudes towards the death penalty in Indonesia. The findings have been presented in a two-part report; the first details the findings of a nuanced public…

In 2019-20, The Death Penalty Project, in partnership with LBH Masyarakat and the University of Indonesia, commissioned Professor Carolyn Hoyle, of The Death Penalty Research Unit at the University of Oxford to conduct research investigating attitudes towards the death penalty in Indonesia. The findings have been presented in a two-part report; the first details the findings of a nuanced public…

In 2019-20, The Department of Law at the University of Dhaka, in collaboration with the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) and The Death Penalty Project, conducted a study to investigate socio-economic characteristics and experiences of death row prisoners in Bangladesh. Bangladesh continues to retain and implement the death penalty, with several executions taking place each year. Excluding laws…

This report draws on in-depth interviews with 42 opinion leaders on the death penalty, their knowledge of the criminal justice system, the likelihood of abolition and how that could be achieved. They represent the fields of politics, public service, law, religion, civil society, academia, and defence. The main finding indicates that 90% of those interviewed supported abolition of the death…