Hello and welcome to the February ADPP newsletter. This month our focus falls on the UK, which may raise some eyebrows, the UK having abolished the death penalty in 1998. However, in our first article, recent opinion and polling in the wake of the Alex Rudakubana case indicates that a majority of Britons would now favour a return of the death penalty. More worrying is that this trend is strongest in younger voters.

There is slightly better news from Indonesia where a British grandmother who was sentenced to death for drug smuggling may now escape execution and be repatriated as Indonesia mulls the future of the death penalty.

In the USA one of President Trump’s first executive orders upon his return to the White House seeks to ‘restore’ the federal death penalty following Joe Biden’s commutation of 37 death sentences. We also report on the growing use of nitrogen hypoxia.

Back in the UK our death penalty video recalls the execution process in this country before hanging was abolished and our death penalty fact looks at the last time somebody was executed in this country for treason.

As always, thank you to you all for your continued support in opposing the death penalty wherever in the world it takes place.