Research
Research
Driving knowledge creation and exchange for researchers in Asia
To help change the narrative in retentionist countries and countries considering resuming executions, we will:
- conduct research on responses to drug policy, as the Asia-Pacific region has the highest proportion of countries resorting to the death penalty for drug-related offences
- understand underlying attitudes towards the death penalty, so we can begin to change opinion and identify areas where attitudinal shifts could be fostered
- collect data on the identities of those on death row, to better understand the people sentenced to death, including their socioeconomic, gender, sexual, ethnic and religious identities.
Report into State-Sanctioned Killing of Sexual Minorities
To what extent do states sanction the killing of sexual minorities? Find out how the law not only imposes the death penalty for such groups, but also commissions, condones, endorses and enables these killings.
Report into State-sanctioned Violations of Religious Freedom
This report examines the extent to which States commit, or are complicit in, killings that violate religious freedom. Focusing on the 12 States in which offences against religion are lawfully punishable by death, we examine four different types of State-sanctioned killings on the basis of religious offence (apostasy, blasphemy, or alike) or affiliation (most commonly, membership of a religious minority): judicial executions, extrajudicial killings, killings by civilians, and killings by extremist groups. We explore the relationship between the retention of the death penalty for religious offences and other forms of State-sanctioned killings motivated by alleged religious offending or by religious identity.