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Dr Lucy Harry – The Death Penalty: South East Asia
23rd February 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Lucy Harry received her doctorate in Criminology from Balliol College, Oxford. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Death Penalty Research Unit at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, studying the death penalty for drug offences in Indonesia
This talk will provide an overview of the state of the death penalty in Southeast Asian jurisdictions, where it is mainly retained for drug related offences. In particular, this talk will draw on the speaker’s research on foreign national women sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Malaysia.