Centre for Capital Punishment Studies

Welcome to the Centre for Capital Punishment Studies

The Centre for Capital Punishment Studies is a project which undertakes numerous pioneering activities within the field of death penalty and penal research, with the overall aim of informing and supporting governmental moves to replace capital punishment with more humane alternatives and to give support for families of homicide victims and the condemned.

The CCPS is situated at the University of Westminster, London, UK, and was founded in 1992 by the Centre’s Director, Peter Hodgkinson OBE, a Council of Europe expert on the death penalty and a founding member of the UK Foreign Secretary’s Death Penalty Panel.

We aim to assist governments, NGOs and civil society by providing a range of services such as our Humane Advocacy Programme, the Internship Programme, the Senior Management Course, Seminar Series, Occasional Paper Series, and an abundance of evidence-based information on death penalty issues through individual meetings and roundtables.

For a summary of CCPS’ activities please click here.

CCPS are currently undertaking projects in both Vietnam and Morocco, funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, please click here to find out more about our projects.

If you are interested in supporting the work that we do and make a contribution please click here.

Updates
New Visiting Research Fellow CCPS are pleased to announce that Professor Gavin Drewry has joined us as a Visiting Research Fellow. Read more about him and his work here. The Death Penalty Forum Thank you to all of our speakers and Freshfield for hosting this event. Pictures coming soon... CCPS Internship Programme 2009 Reports CCPS Internship Reports 2009 are now available, please click here. Applications deadline The deadline for applications for April 2010 - March 2011 Internships was 10th January 2010. Former intern Not only do the interns add to the pool of human rights aware actors in the UK, many of them continue to be involved with the work in their host country or with CCPS after they come back. Kerry Ann Akers’ experience provides an especially good illustration of the opportunities an internships provide for personal development and those of the country host’s initiatives. Please click here to read more about Kerry's experience. Congratulations to former CCPS intern Camilla Graham-Wood for winning ‘Best Contribution by an Individual Student’ at the Attorney General Student Pro Bono Awards. Camilla spent three months at the Caribbean Centre for Human Rights in Port of Spain, Trinidad in 2008. CCPS Website CCPS is delighted to announce the expansion of its Death Penalty Worldwide Map. The map, which is located under ‘Resources’ provides a fact sheet on selected countries, detailing a basic overview of the country, their death penalty and execution status, their involvement in human rights treaties, notes on their use of the death penalty, and links to other useful sites. This a continuing project and we aim to provide information on all countries worldwide, starting with countries where we are involved in projects and countries that participate in our internship program. If you have any comments on any of the countries or anything you wish to add, please contact Lina Gyllensten at L.Gyllensten1@wmin.ac.uk. Office Location CCPS offices are located at 74 Great Portland Street, however, mailings should still be sent to the Law School at 4-12 Little Titchfield Street, London W1W 7UW.

Updates

New Visiting Research Fellow

CCPS are pleased to announce that Professor Gavin Drewry has joined us as a Visiting Research Fellow. Read more about him and his work here.

The Death Penalty Forum

Thank you to all of our speakers and Freshfield for hosting this event. Pictures coming soon...

CCPS Internship Programme

2009 Reports

CCPS Internship Reports 2009 are now available, please click here.

Applications deadline

The deadline for applications for April 2010 - March 2011 Internships was 10th January 2010.

Former intern

Not only do the interns add to the pool of human rights aware actors in the UK, many of them continue to be involved with the work in their host country or with CCPS after they come back. Kerry Ann Akers’ experience provides an especially good illustration of the opportunities an internships provide for personal development and those of the country host’s initiatives. Please click here to read more about Kerry's experience.

Congratulations to former CCPS intern Camilla Graham-Wood for winning ‘Best Contribution by an Individual Student’ at the Attorney General Student Pro Bono Awards.

Camilla spent three months at the Caribbean Centre for Human Rights in Port of Spain, Trinidad in 2008.

CCPS Website

CCPS is delighted to announce the expansion of its Death Penalty Worldwide Map. The map, which is located under ‘Resources’ provides a fact sheet on selected countries, detailing a basic overview of the country, their death penalty and execution status, their involvement in human rights treaties, notes on their use of the death penalty, and links to other useful sites. This a continuing project and we aim to provide information on all countries worldwide, starting with countries where we are involved in projects and countries that participate in our internship program.

If you have any comments on any of the countries or anything you wish to add, please contact Lina Gyllensten at L.Gyllensten1@wmin.ac.uk.

Office Location

CCPS offices are located at 74 Great Portland Street, however, mailings should still be sent to the Law School at 4-12 Little Titchfield Street, London W1W 7UW.