The Death Penalty Project Limited

EU Legislative Interests

The Death Penalty Project engages with EU Commissioners and their staff and with the Council of the European Union, to make sure that the abolition of the death penalty remains a priority of the external policy of the EU (see EU Guidelines on Death Penalty). The Death Penalty Project has engaged with the EU’s human rights policies and initiatives, with a particular focus on the EU’s policy against the death penalty, working on EU funded projects. It is part of the EU-funded Global Consortium for Death Penalty Abolition, launched in 2024. The Death Penalty Project has previously implemented EU-funded projects in Kenya (EIDHR/2017/154297/28) "Strengthening the rule of law and restricting the use of the death penalty leading to abolition" and in the Caribbean (EIDHR/2017/394-699), "Building a Platform for Abolition: Strengthening the Anti-Death Penalty Movement in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean".

Communication Activities

The Death Penalty Project has produced a number of publications related to the death penalty, including the following reports which were produced with funding from the European Commission: - Living with a Death Sentence in Kenya: Prisoners’ Experiences of Crime, Punishment and Death Row https://deathpenaltyproject.org/knowledge/kenya-socio-economic-report/ - The Death Penalty in Kenya: A Punishment that has Died Out in Practice, Part One - A Public Ready to Accept Abolition https://deathpenaltyproject.org/knowledge/kenya-part-one-a-public-ready-to-accept-abolition/ - The Death Penalty in Kenya: A Punishment that has Died Out in Practice, Part Two - Overwhelming Support for Abolition Among Opinion Leaders https://deathpenaltyproject.org/knowledge/kenya-part-two/ - Between Retention and Abolition: Making Sense of a Death Penalty Without Executions https://deathpenaltyproject.org/knowledge/abolitionist-de-facto-making-sense-of-a-death-penalty-without-executions/ This report was made possible by the Council of Europe within the framework of the multilateral project ‘Death is not Justice: Abolition of the death penalty in Europe and beyond’.

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

The Death Penalty Project is a member of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (WCADP) and now a co-lead of the EU Consortium led by WCADP.

Organisation Members

The Death Penalty Project is not a membership organisation and therefore does not have any members. We work with a number of partner organisations around the world, including KNCHR, BLAST, University of Dhaka, The Square Circle Clinic, WCADP, GCL, Veritas, DITSHWANELO, TAEDP, and LBH Masyarakat.