Former death row prisoner Wilbert Rideau spoke at the DPP’s second annual


lecture at Inner Temple, London, in 2011.


Publications


and research The Death Penalty Project has developed and commissioned studies and research into all aspects of the death penalty. Publications in the past five years include:


A Rare and Arbitrary Fate (2006) Professor Roger Hood and Dr Florence Seemungal


A Guide to Sentencing in Capital Cases (2007) Edward Fitzgerald QC and Keir Starmer QC


A Penalty Without Legitimacy (2009) Professor Roger Hood and Dr Florence Seemungal


Public Opinion Survey on the Mandatory Death Penalty in Trinidad (2011) Professor Roger Hood and Dr Florence Seemungal


violent prison, he was later described by Life magazine as ‘the most rehabilitated prisoner in America’.


FORENSIC TRAINING SEMINAR FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS, ST KITTS, 2011 In July 2011, working with Dr Sharon Halliday, a psychiatrist from St Kitts, we held our first large-scale training seminar for mental health professionals in the Caribbean. The expert trainers included forensic psychiatrist Professor Nigel Eastman and clinical psychologist Dr Timothy Green. Over 70 mental health professionals from the Caribbean attended the event (pictured below).


The lasting legacy of the Death Penalty Project team can be seen in the training they have provided for death penalty litigators in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, and on the educational programmes they have organised and participated in throughout the world. They are a true inspiration to death penalty opponents and human rights activists worldwide.” Professor Michael L Radelet PhD, University of Colorado, USA


Report on Prison Conditions in Jamaica (2011) James Robottom


Internship


programmes The Death Penalty Project offers a number of formal internship programmes for students and graduates who are interested in working in the human rights legal sector, and in particular with issues concerning the use of the death penalty within the criminal justice system. Every year we receive students from Yale Law School, the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and the University of Reading.


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