DPRU and DPP host ‘The Death Penalty: The Next 10 Years’ roundtable

On 15 November 2024, the DPRU and our partner organisation the Death Penalty Project (DPP) hosted a one-day roundtable meeting on the future of the death penalty at the DPP’s headquarters in London.

Bringing together academics, legal practitioners, policy and medical experts, and research students, the event was intended to take stock of the status of the death penalty worldwide today and consider how further academic research could assist participants’ work in advocacy, campaigning and legal challenges to the death penalty over the next decade. 

In the afternoon session of the roundtable, Oxford Criminology research students and graduates Aimee Clesi, Amanda Clift-Matthews, Matthew Goldberg, Amelia Inglis, Lucrezia Rizzelli, Vittorio Sassi and Serene Singh each provided briefings on their research work on the various theoretical and empirical aspects of death penalty. 

The event was made possible by generous financial support from Professor Michael Radelet of the University of Colorado Boulder.