By Anushree Mehta On 12th November teams from King’s College London (KCL) and University College London (UCL) debated the motion “This House Requires Countries Opposing the Death Penalty to Sanction Pharmaceutical Companies that Provide Lethal Injection Drugs”. While the proposition (KCL) presented a strong argument that excessive harm caused by the lethal drugs should lead…
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Exonerated from death row: An Evening with Peter Pringle and Sunny Jacobs
By Anushree Mehta On the 17th of October 2019, UCL’s Amicus Chapter welcomed two exonerees from death row to talk about their experiences with the injustices embedded in the American and Irish legal systems. Peter was a political activist in Ireland, framed for a crime he did not commit – and wrongfully sentenced to death….