'Deathworthy': a mental health perspective on the death penalty in India
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In October this year, Project 39A published Deathworthy | A Mental Health Perspective of the Death Penalty, a report presenting empirical data on mental illness and intellectual disability among death row prisoners in India and the psychological consequences of living on death row.
In this seminar, Maitreyi Misra (Lead Author, Deathworthy) and Dr Danny Sullivan join Mai Sato to discuss the implications of this ground breaking report.
Speakers
Maitreyi Misra, Project 39A
Maitreyi Misra heads Project 39A’s work on mental health and criminal justice along with leading the death penalty mitigation team. She graduated in Law from the Symbiosis Law School, Pune in 2010. She holds a Masters in Law from the New York University. She was an International Law and Human Rights Fellow as part of which she worked with the Association for Civil Rights in Tel Aviv, Israel. Before joining Project 39A in 2014, Maitreyi worked with Mr. Anand Grover, Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India and assisted him in his work as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health.
Dr Danny Sullivan, Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health
Danny Sullivan is a forensic psychiatrist with extensive clinical, medico-legal and governance experience. He is Authorised Psychiatrist and Executive Director of Clinical Services at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health. Dr Sullivan provides medico-legal and complex case assessments in criminal jurisdictions across Australia, and has also provided assessments in several Pacific nations and England. See Danny’s profile at: https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/20615-danny-sullivan
Moderator: Mai Sato, Director of Eleos Justice, Faculty of Law, Monash University.
Event Partners
This seminar is delivered in partnership with Project 39A, National Law University Delhi, a criminal justice program conducting empirical research to examine practices and policies in the criminal justice system, with the aim of triggering new conversations on legal aid, torture, forensics, mental health in prisons, and the death penalty.
Meet Project 39A here.
About Eleos Justice
Eleos Justice carries out evidence-based research, teaching, and advocacy on the death penalty. Check out the launch of Eleos Justice here.
Contact us
About the Event:
e-mail: law-engagement@monash.edu
e-mail: mai.sato@monash.edu
Event Details
- Date:
- 1 December 2021 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
- Venue:
- Online via Zoom
Description
To watch this past event, click play on the video below:
In October this year, Project 39A published Deathworthy | A Mental Health Perspective of the Death Penalty, a report presenting empirical data on mental illness and intellectual disability among death row prisoners in India and the psychological consequences of living on death row.
In this seminar, Maitreyi Misra (Lead Author, Deathworthy) and Dr Danny Sullivan join Mai Sato to discuss the implications of this ground breaking report.
Speakers
Maitreyi Misra, Project 39A
Maitreyi Misra heads Project 39A’s work on mental health and criminal justice along with leading the death penalty mitigation team. She graduated in Law from the Symbiosis Law School, Pune in 2010. She holds a Masters in Law from the New York University. She was an International Law and Human Rights Fellow as part of which she worked with the Association for Civil Rights in Tel Aviv, Israel. Before joining Project 39A in 2014, Maitreyi worked with Mr. Anand Grover, Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India and assisted him in his work as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health.
Dr Danny Sullivan, Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health
Danny Sullivan is a forensic psychiatrist with extensive clinical, medico-legal and governance experience. He is Authorised Psychiatrist and Executive Director of Clinical Services at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health. Dr Sullivan provides medico-legal and complex case assessments in criminal jurisdictions across Australia, and has also provided assessments in several Pacific nations and England. See Danny’s profile at: https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/20615-danny-sullivan
Moderator: Mai Sato, Director of Eleos Justice, Faculty of Law, Monash University.
Event Partners
This seminar is delivered in partnership with Project 39A, National Law University Delhi, a criminal justice program conducting empirical research to examine practices and policies in the criminal justice system, with the aim of triggering new conversations on legal aid, torture, forensics, mental health in prisons, and the death penalty.
Meet Project 39A here.
About Eleos Justice
Eleos Justice carries out evidence-based research, teaching, and advocacy on the death penalty. Check out the launch of Eleos Justice here.
Contact us
About the Event:
e-mail: law-engagement@monash.edu
e-mail: mai.sato@monash.edu