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.