News & Updates
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.