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The Indonesian government plans to execute five convicts on death row before the year ends. Three have been convicted for drug-related crimes. According to The Guardian, the five condemned to death this…
Half a century ago, Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans were hanged for the murder of John West. Nobody knew it at the time, but they were to be the last people to be executed in the UK. The 50th anniversary…
Once again, a prisoner has died an unseemly death in the execution chambers of the United States of America. Facing a shortage of the drugs needed to carry out a lethal injection, the state of Oklahoma…
American exceptionalism on the death penalty is at it again, and this time we have truly outdone ourselves: we tortured someone to death. Last month, the Ohio execution of Denis McGuire using untested…
Ever since the time of the guillotine, doctors have been at the centre of the death penalty. Joseph Guillotin, the physician who suggested the device be used in 18th-century France, was actually against…
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Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Director of the University of Oxford Death Penalty Research Unit, Centre for Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor, Director of Eleos Justice, Faculty of Law, Monash University
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Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Death Penalty Project, University of Oxford
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Associate Lecturer, School of Government, Universitas Jendral Achmad Yani
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Term Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology Law and Society, George Mason University
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Director, La Trobe Asia, and Professor of International Relations, La Trobe University
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Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, The University of Melbourne
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Dean of the Faculty of Law, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya
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Adjunct Professor, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
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Assistant Professor of History, Emory University
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Secretary General of ALMI and Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights, Universitas Gadjah Mada
