ABOUT THE DEATH PENALTY PROJECT
DPP Mission…
To provide free legal representation to individuals facing the death penalty
To promote the restriction of the death penalty in line with international minimum legal requirements
To uphold and develop human rights standards and the criminal law
To promote increased awareness and greater dialogue with key stakeholders on the death penalty
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WHAT WE DO We provide free legal representation and assistance to anyone facing execution and work to protect the human rights of prisoners wherever the death penalty is still an enforceable punishment.
WHERE WE WORK We work in all jurisdictions where the death penalty is imposed – we have never turned a case down. The majority of our work is carried out in Caribbean countries that still use the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London as their final court of appeal and in other Commonwealth countries – principally in Africa and South East Asia.
OUR ACHIEVEMENTS Over the past five years, we have represented death row prisoners in more than 200 cases across 23 countries. Many of these cases have resulted in prisoners having their death sentences quashed. The legal precedents created have been of seminal importance in subsequent cases relating to the death penalty.
The mandatory death penalty has now been removed in ten Caribbean countries as well as in Uganda and Malawi. In 2010, the Kenyan Court of Appeal also ruled the mandatory death penalty for murder to be unconstitutional as it violates the right to life.
This page (from top): with Keir Starmer QC and Edward Fitzgerald QC at a judicial colloquium in Uganda (2007); workshop in Beijing, China (2007); with Professor Roger Hood at a meeting with the Taiwan Alliance Against the Death
Penalty in Taipei, Taiwan (2009). Opposite page: meeting of the Caribbean Legal Network at British High Commission in Bridgetown, Barbados (2010).
6 The Death Penalty Project: 2006 – 2011 report
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