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Ten law students from the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ are about to travel to the United States to help provide legal representation on behalf of prisoners who have been sentenced to death.

¹û¶³´«Ã½’s Death Penalty Project, which is now in its 10th year, is run through the and has proved to be a life-changing experience for dozens of aspiring lawyers. As well as sending students to the US, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ also has around 120 volunteers currently providing ongoing remote assistance to US capital defence attorneys through research support work.

Dina Alawneh, who graduates this summer following a three-year law degree, is about to start her second internship, after spending last summer at Louisiana Capital Assistance Centre (LCAC). You can read about her experience .

The Centre's death penalty project has also been mentioned in the and in the .

The Centre has also hosted visits by Russell Stetler from the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Oakland, California, who co-ordinates federal death penalty projects which aim to ensure people facing capital punishment receive effective legal representation in that area. During his last visit he was , a human rights magazine also hosted at the Centre for Human Rights in Practice.

More information about opportunities for ¹û¶³´«Ã½ students to become involved in 2015/2016 can be found on the Centre's .