CPJP Chair Stephen Keim SC recently published an article in the journal Pandora’s Box about why opposing the death penalty is important to him, and why it should matter to all Australians.

An opinion piece by Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, co-founder of the Australian Wrongful and Arbitrary Detention Alliance.

CPJP Ambassador Lex Lasry reflects on the use of the death penalty in Singapore, 19 years after the execution of his client Van Nguyen, an Australian citizen.

Read our newsletter from 22 November 2024.

Read our joint statement with six allied organisations who are greatly alarmed at the deteriorating human rights situation in Singapore, including executions for drug related offences and further restrictions on anti-death penalty activists.

Today CPJP joins activists around the world to mark World Day Against the Death Penalty under the theme 'The death penalty protects no one'.

CPJP is horrified that Missouri executed Marcellus Williams this week, despite grave concerns that he was wrongfully convicted.

Photo credit: Marcellus Williams’ legal team

Read our newsletter from 22 September 2024.

As we approach World Day Against the Death Penalty 2024, our partner organisation Eleos Justice invites individuals and organisations to submit creative works that, in line with the abolitionist spirit of World Day, cast a light on the death penalty.

A joint statement on the situation of enforced disappearances in Bangladesh in commemoration of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances 2024.

Read our joint statement with six allied organisations who are gravely concerned by developments in Singapore since early August 2024. The authorities carried out two executions in violation of international safeguards and limited the right to freedom of expression of a local NGO.

Read our joint submission, made with four of our partners, to the inquiry being held by the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade of the Parliament of Australia.

Read the open letter signed by 60 organisations condemning the Bangladesh Government’s efforts to manipulate the narrative about the ongoing protests, and calling for action to halt the violence and support investigations into alleged human rights violations during the crackdown on protesters.

Read our joint statement calling on the Bangladeshi government to immediately stop the violent crackdown on student protesters by law enforcement agencies, security forces, and members of the ruling party. Perpetrators should be held accountable through genuine and independent investigations.

We are alarmed by the recent publication by the Chinese authorities of new judicial guidelines providing directives to prosecute and harshly punish, including by the death penalty, those advocating and acting for Taiwan’s independence.

On the occasion of the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on 26 June, we join 11 organisations worldwide to express our grave concerns over continuing acts of torture and other ill-treatment committed by law-enforcement agencies and security forces in Bangladesh.

Following news that Dr Yang Hengjun’s suspended death sentence has been upheld, we call for immediate action from the Australian Government to make all efforts to bring Dr Yang home.

We are gravely concerned about a debate held in Tonga’s Parliament late last month, which suggests the country may be considering extending the death penalty to drug-related offences.

We are deeply concerned to learn of the conviction and death sentence imposed upon Ms Lesedi Molapisi for drug-related offences by a Bangladesh court on 27 May 2024.

Read our newsletter from 19 May 2024, providing a spotlight on the rising number of executions in the Islamic Republic of Iran.