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Read more about Pannir's case on our website, learn more about amplifying his case and/or by joining one of the many vigils in supporting Pannir.
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Singapore: Execution of Pannir Selvam Pranthaman — Julian Wagner Memorial Fund
The Government of Singapore intends to execute  Pannir Selvam Pranthaman  at dawn tomorrow. His family received news of the intended execution on Saturday - as it is Pannir’s third notice of...
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October 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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A recent article has reported the circumstances of Datchinamurthy Kataiah execution. You can read the article on our website www.jwmf.com.au/blog/singapo...
Singapore: No more. Not in my name — Julian Wagner Memorial Fund
A recent article has been published regarding the execution of Datchinamurthy Kataiah. The article reports that Datchinamurthy and his family were made to wait the morning of his scheduled execu...
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September 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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A joint statement has been released from civil society organisations including Singapore, Malaysia and Australia. You can read the full statement linked on our website www.jwmf.com.au/blog/joint-s...
Joint statement: Malaysia and Singapore — Julian Wagner Memorial Fund
A joint statement from civil society organisations across Singapore, Malaysia and Australia has been published on Capital Punishment Justice Project’s website. The statement calls on authorities of ...
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September 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Join the urgent press conference on Monday 22 September to halt the imminent executions of Sinagporeans on our website here: www.jwmf.com.au/blog/urgent-...
Urgent Appeal: Halt Imminent Executions of Malaysians and Others in Singapore — Julian Wagner Memorial Fund
Datchinamurthy a/l Kataiah, Pannir Selvam Pranthaman, Saminathan a/l Selvaraju, Lingkesvaran Rajendaren, and Jumaat bin Mohamed Sayed, are those facing imminent executions in Singapore. Their cases ...
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September 20, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (FADP) have issued a statement on the execution of David Pittman, an intellectually disabled man. You can read the full statement on our website:https://www.jwmf.com.au/blog/fadps-statement-on-david-pittmans-execution
September 20, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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*NEW* DPRU blog post

Willis Nandi shares his experience of spending 10 years on death row in Kenya

"When I found out in the courtroom that I could be sentenced to death, I fainted in the dock."

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A decade on death row in Kenya
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July 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Willis Nandi, a volunteer with the NGO Crime Si Poa and former death row prisoner in Kenya has recently written a piece on his experience of being on death row for a decade. You can read it linked on our website here www.jwmf.com.au/blog/willis-...
Willis Nandi: A decade on death row — Julian Wagner Memorial Fund
The Oxford Death Penalty Research Unit recently published a blog written by Willis Nandi, a volunteer and former death row prisoner in Kenya. Willis was sentenced to death for an offence he did not ...
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September 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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"The death penalty in Kenya is literally a mental torture... The suffering is so severe, waiting for something that isn’t going to happen, that prisoners would demand to be executed."

Read Willis Nandi's blog post published by @dpruoxford.bsky.social: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/death-penalt...
A decade on death row in Kenya
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August 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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At the U.S. UPR pre-session 🇺🇳 @norwayingeneva.norway.no raised the important issue of the federal death penalty. Our U.S. Stakeholder report on the DP can be downloaded here bcuassets.blob.core.windows.net/docs/usa-upr... @norwaymfa.government.no @dpruoxford.bsky.social
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August 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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In a new article for the Journal of Human Rights Practice, DPRU Director Professor Carolyn Hoyle and the Death Penalty Project's Parvais Jabbar reflect on the collaborative process leading up to Zimbabwe's abolition of the death penalty in December 2024:

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New article on abolition in Zimbabwe in Journal of
In August 2025, Professor Carolyn Hoyle, Director of the Death Penalty Research Unit (DPRU), and
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August 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Iran: 13 months into Pezeshkian’s presidency, the execution toll has surpassed 1,625.
Every execution in Iran is a call to action.
#StopExecutionsInIran
#نه_به_اعدام
#NoDeathPenalty

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September 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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The Utah Supreme Court recently announced that more evaluation was required to determine whether death row inmate Ralph Menzies is competent to be executed. You can read more here
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Utah: Supreme Court delays execution — Julian Wagner Memorial Fund
The Utah Supreme Court recently announced that more evaluation was required to determine whether death row inmate Ralph Menzies is competent to be executed. The justices ruled that another competenc...
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September 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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See our new paper:

Daniel Pascoe and Mai Sato, 'The death penalty, due process violations, murder by decree and extra-legal killings: A typology of 'murder by governments''
DPRU Research Paper Series | Faculty of Law
One of the key aims of the Death Penalty Research Unit (DPRU) is to encourage death penalty
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September 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Say Her Name! #MahsaAmini #JinaAmini

📅 Sunday 14 September
📍 Reddacliff Place, Brisbane, 4:00 PM
📍 Town Hall Square, Sydney, 4:30 PM
Tuesday, 16 September, marks the third anniversary of 22-year-old Mahsa Jina Amini's death in #Iran at the hands of the Islamic Republic regime.
September 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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A recent article has explored the moral and practical problems associated with the firing squad execution method. You can read more on our website here:

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Firing squad execution methods: moral and practical problems — Julian Wagner Memorial Fund
A recent article has explored the moral and practical problems associated with the firing squad execution method. Dr Groner, an expert on death penalty methods and retired surgeon, says that upon ex...
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September 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights have called for a halt to increasing executions and to impose a moratorium on the application of the death penalty as a step towards its abolition. You can read more here:
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Iran: UN Human Rights Commissioner calls for moratorium on death penalty — Julian Wagner Memorial Fund
The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights have called for a halt to increasing executions and to impose a moratorium on the application of the death penalty as a step towards...
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August 30, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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One of our members and final year law student, Jude Forrest, examines the landmark case of Pratt and Morgan v the Attorney-General of Jamaica and the precedent established.
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The Death Row Phenomenon: The argument that saved a thousand lives — Julian Wagner Memorial Fund
There is an instinctive revulsion against the prospect of hanging a man after he has been held under sentence of death for many years. What gives rise to this instinctive revulsion? The answer can onl...
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August 24, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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For the first time since 1998, Singapore have granted clemency to a death row prisoner.

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Singapore: clemency granted for death row prisoner — Julian Wagner Memorial Fund
A recent article has reported that Singapore has granted clemency to a death row prisoner, for the first time since 1998. Tristan Tan Yi Rui was sentenced to death in 2023 but his death sentence wil...
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August 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Read more on our website about anti-death penalty activists calling for the reversal of Arkansas nitrogen execution law.
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Anti-death penalty activists call for reversal of Arkansas nitrogen execution law — Julian Wagner Memorial Fund
A recent article has reported that opponents of the death penalty have called on Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders to reverse Arkansas’ decision to allow nitrogen suffocation as a method of execution. ...
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August 16, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Vietnam have recently abolished the death penalty for eight offences. Read more on our website www.jwmf.com.au/blog/vietnam...
Vietnam: IBAHRI welcomes reduction in scope of death penalty and calls for full abolition — Julian Wagner Memorial Fund
A recent article has reported that the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute ( IBAHRI ) has welcomed amendments to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam’s Criminal Code. As of 1 July 20...
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August 11, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Tennessee proceed with executing Byron Black, despite concerns that the execution would violate the Eighth Amendment of the US Constitution. Read the article on our website here:
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Tennessee proceed with execution for Byron Black — Julian Wagner Memorial Fund
A recent article has reported that Tennessee have executed Bryon Black, who had an implanted defibrillator despite concerns that the medical device may attempt to restart his heart. Mr Black had be...
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August 6, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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A report by Amnesty International provides that in 2024 Saudi Arabia carried out 345 executions for which were drug related offences. You can listen to the segment produced by ABC on our website here:
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Saudi Arabia: increase in executions — Julian Wagner Memorial Fund
ABC have produced a segment on Saudi Arabia’s increase in drug executions since they abandoned their moratorium on capital punishment in 2022. A report by Amnesty International provides that in 202...
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July 22, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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A recent report has demonstrated that the process of selecting juries for death penalty cases systematically excludes Black prospective jurors, women and people of faith. Read more here www.jwmf.com.au/blog/death-p...
Death Penalty Jury selection undermines constitutional promise of a trial by jury — Julian Wagner Memorial Fund
A recent article from the Death Penalty Information Center has reported that a recent report from ACLU has demonstrated that the process of selecting juries for death penalty cases systematically excl...
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July 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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A recent article has reported that Saudi Arabia have executed almost 600 people over the past decade for non-violent drug offences. You can read the full article linked on our website www.jwmf.com.au/blog/saudi-a...
Saudi Arabia: executions for non-violent offences — Julian Wagner Memorial Fund
A recent article has reported that Saudi Arabia have executed almost 600 people over the past decade for non-violent drug offences. Amnesty International have described the act as a chilling disre...
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July 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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A new study has shown that racism is a leading factor in executions. You can read more on our website here www.jwmf.com.au/blog/new-stu...
New study shows racism is a leading factor in executions — Julian Wagner Memorial Fund
A recent article has reported that according to a comprehensive analysis recently conducted by Death Penalty Policy Project Director Robert Dunham, death penalty states in the U.S are in the midst of ...
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July 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM