News & Updates
Indonesia reaches a critical milestone
After 10 years without executions, Indonesia becomes a de facto abolitionist state, plus the latest death penalty news from the USA, Iran, Singapore and beyond.
CPJP Newsletter
Read about our recent Melbourne screening of GUILTY, plus Amnesty International's latest global report on executions, and some powerful podcast recommendations.
CPJP Newsletter
Read our newsletter from 10 October 2024 - World Day Against the Death Penalty.
Release of Amnesty International Global Death Penalty Report
“The people we are seeing executed are from poor and minority backgrounds,” says CPJP’s Sara Kowal.
Australia must apply pressure to halt executions in Iran
In solidarity with human rights defenders worldwide, Capital Punishment Justice Project (CPJP) calls for an immediate halt to impending executions against protestors in Iran.
World Day Against the Death Penalty 2022
Video from the ‘CPJP World Day Against the Death Penalty 2022’ event held on 13 October 2022 and hosted by MinterEllison in Melbourne. Guest speaker Kylie Moore-Gilbert, author of The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison, shares her experience with writer Sally Warhaft.