Winner of the Arabic language category of PRI's recent competition for the best investigative journalism on the death penalty and life imprisonment, exploring the Jordanian government's position on the death penalty.
3rd November 2014
On World Day against the Death Penalty, PRI's Death Penalty Project Coordinator, Oliver Robertson, says that the death penalty puts a huge mental strain on children, but also many others including guards and lawyers.
10th October 2014
Oliver Robertson reports from Africa where he met people who had experienced wrongful conviction and spent years on death row awaiting execution.
24th July 2014
На сегодняшний день вопрос смертной казни является актуальным в странах Центральной Азии. Так на сегодняшний день смертная казнь законодательно сохраняется в Таджикистане и Казахстане.
10th July 2014
PRI's Policy Director, Andrea Huber, looks at the some of the major trends in criminal justice and penal policy over the last few years. This blog was first published by the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex.
11th June 2014
PRI's Death penalty Project Coordinator in Central Asia reports from a regional conference on the death penalty in Tajikistan. A recent survey carried out in Tajikistan showed 67% of the population in favour of abolition.
16th April 2014
Alison Hannah, PRI's Executive Director reports from a regional conference in Kazakhstan on the development of prison legislation in Central Asia.
18th March 2014
This week, PRI's Death Penalty Project Manager, Oliver Robertson, attended a lecture by William Schabas, Professor of International Law at Middlesex University London on the prospects for a death-penalty free world.
30th January 2014
All states in the MENA region currently retain the death penalty in law - and some continue to carry out executions - but PRI's Death Penalty Project Manager sees reason for optimism at a two-day PRI conference in Algiers.
6th January 2014
PRI's work continues to demonstrate that there are constructive ways to protect society and maintain security than by simply pressing the default button to lock people up.
18th December 2013