We had the honour of hosting Saul Lehrfreund MBE @SaulLehrfreund , Co-Executive Director of the Death Penalty Project. The visit provided an important opportunity for dialogue on Nigeria’s evolving position on the use of the death penalty. During our deliberations, we reflected

On 16 January, Taiwan carried out its first execution in almost five years. The execution, only months after the Constitutional Court promised to safeguard defendants’ & prisoners’ rights in capital cases, appears to be a cynical abuse of political power. https://t.co/jkfEidiRKu

📢 DEATH PENALTY ABOLISHED! Today, Zimbabwe has abolished the #deathpenalty almost 20 years after its last execution. Parliament passed a private member’s bill, introduced by MP @MushoriwaEdwin, which ensures Zimbabwe can no longer impose death sentences. This makes Zimbabwe the

Today President Mnangagwa of #Zimbabwe signed legislation ending the death penalty. Parvais Jabbar @DeathPenaltyP & Carolyn Hoyle @DPRUOxford track the path to abolition https://t.co/HMwKWVsOlq via @TC_Africa

*NEW* DPRU Q&A interview The DPRU's Daniel Cullen speaks to lawyer Takeshi Kaneko about Japan's death penalty system and his ongoing efforts to challenge it through the use of litigation: https://t.co/hRrojdb3BD

Yesterday, a court in Japan acquitted 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, who spent 46 years facing execution @SaulLehrfreund of @DeathPenaltyP reflects on the case and its lessons for Japan's criminal justice system https://t.co/MY7p2SVbVQ

📢A British National is one of 51 individuals facing a potential death sentence before a military tribunal in the #DRC who recently lifted a 20-year moratorium on executions. https://t.co/upmwvEdn4e @WCADP @amnesty @DPRUOxford @FIACAT_org @FCDOHumanRights @AssoECPM

When does a trial go so wrong that a conviction should be overturned? Today, our client Nardis Maynard will challenge his conviction for murder before the Privy Council. He is represented by @sgreyqc, and Richard Vardon of @18stjohn & local counsel @tbyron869 of Byron Chambers.

Thrilled to collaborate with the Maharashtra Institute of #MentalHealth @MimhPune for a #workshop to discuss issues of fitness to stand trial, insanity defence & sentencing! The resource persons are @MisraMaitreyi, @SaulLehrfreund, Dr. Richard Latham, Dr. IS Netto and Dr. Karde.

We are proud to facilitate the collaboration between @NIMHANS_BLR & @NLUDofficial for a 2-day interdisciplinary forensic psychiatry workshop at NIMHANS! Resource persons for the workshop are @MisraMaitreyi, @sureshbadamath, Dr. Naveen Kumar, @SaulLehrfreund & Dr. Richard Latham.

Our Dir. (Mitigation) @MisraMaitreyi was a panelist at a seminar in Taiwan on ‘#Dignity & #Justice for All: Protecting the #RighttoLife’, with other intl. experts. She shared our research findings from the #DeathPenalty India Report and Deathworthy. @DeathPenaltyP @Hsinyi1975

🇬🇭President Nana Akufo-Addo has assented to the bills abolishing the #deathpenalty in #Ghana. @fx_sosu @UKinGhana @AusAmbGHA @DPRUOxford @CarolynHoyle1 @amnestyghana @lrc_ghana @CDDGha @PosFoundation @ACILA_US_GH @cla_lawyers @afuahirsch @SaulLehrfreund https://t.co/EoXzwg1NOk

Excellent work by @SaulLehrfreund & others on this - let's hope Ghana keeps going to catch up with Sierra Leone by abolishing the death penalty entirely

Ghana becomes the 124th nation globally to abolish the death penalty. On July 25, 2023, Ghana's Parliament abolished the death penalty for all ordinary crimes (including murder, genocide, piracy, and smuggling etc) @lrc_ghana @DeathPenaltyP #DeathPenalty https://t.co/i9u0J3M6mx

The IBAHRI commends #Ghana for abolishing the #deathpenalty for all crimes except high treason, while encouraging Ghana to work for total abolition. Francis-Xavier Sosu, MP & #humanrights #lawyer, is applauded for bringing the Bills before the Parliament. https://t.co/BvFxu9scI4

🚨DPP INTERVIEW: We are pleased to share our latest website article, an interview with Mr Francis-Xavier Sosu @fx_sosu, whose private members bills abolished the #deathpenalty in Ghana. Read here: https://t.co/AVWNmJspiE

This week, Ghana abolished the death penalty for all ordinary crimes, part of a trend towards abolition that is sweeping sub-Saharan Africa In this post, @CarolynHoyle1 and @SaulLehrfreund reflect on DPRU and DPP's collaborative work towards this goal: https://t.co/XxjnOpIUXI

🔗 https://t.co/4yGK9VP7X7 Support from the Commonwealth Lawyers Association (@cla_lawyers) has been an important part of Ghana's pathway to abolition of the #deathpenalty. John Mckendrick KC (@McKendrickKC) of the CLA's Executive Committee said:

🔗 https://t.co/4yGK9VPFMF 🇬🇭Co-author of Ghana's most robust public opinion research on attitudes to the death penalty, Dr Kofi Boakye (@keboakye) said the following on Ghana's historic achievement:

Supporting the amendment bill in #Ghana, we had the privilege of being able to offer expert knowledge to Ghana's Constitutional, Legal Parliamentary Affairs Committee alongside leading academic experts in the field, incl Professor @CarolynHoyle1 of @DPRUOxford at @UniofOxford