The Death Penalty, is Worldwide Abolition (still) Inevitable?
The 1980s and 1990s saw the development of a worldwide movement towards the abolition of thedeath penalty.
Important new international legal instruments were created and whole regions succeeded in becoming free of the death penalty.
However, the trend appears to have shifted in recent years.
Saudi Arabia is executing more people than ever, Indonesia broke its moratorium. Where does this lead us?
Using his personal experiences as a lawyer for dozens of people facing the ultimate punishment, Bart Stapert analyses the current state of the death penalty and the prospects for establishing its full abolition.
Inevitability is no longer a given. It requires constant and renewed engagement from the human rights community.
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About the lecturer
Bart Stapert first worked in the United States as a researcher in Virginia and Atlanta, after which he obtained his J.D. (Juris Doctor) at Loyola University New Orleans.
He went on to work as a lawyer, taking over 70 death penalty cases in the US. For this work, he was given an honorary doctorate at Utrecht University in 2001.
On his return to the Netherlands, he worked as a lecturer and researcher at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology. He was also the chairman of Amnesty International the Netherlands and has been involved with various other human rights organisations.
He worked with the law firm Böhler Advocaten (now Prakken D’Oliveira) and founded his own firm, Stapert & Wiersum, in 2013.
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