Our Impact

We are incredibly proud of everything we have achieved together in the past twenty-five years. 

Since 1999, Reprieve’s lawyers, campaigners, and investigators have stopped over 600 executions and freed over 80 people from detention without charge or trial.

Reprieve proudly collaborates with a network of fellows, consultants and partners around the world to help people facing the death penalty and extreme human rights abuses committed in the name of “counter-terrorism” or “national security”.

Together we work for systemic change by investigating our clients’ cases, fighting on their behalf in the courts of law, advocating for them with political decision makers, and campaigning in the court of public opinion.

Without the support of the Reprieve community, our work simply wouldn’t be possible.

Thank you.

Despite the many challenges of the past year, our Reprieve community came together, made real strides and had plenty to celebrate in 2024. Here are just a few of our collective successes:

• We secured our 10th consecutive victory in the African Court of Human and People’s Rights fighting a case where the mandatory use of the death penalty was ruled to be unlawful.
• In a groundbreaking research project, where we analysed 1,407 lethal injection executions, we revealed that black people had 220% higher odds of suffering a botched execution than white people.
• We extensively documented the growing execution crisis in Saudi Arabia, showing that at least 345 executions were carried out, a record number and significant increase from 2023.
• We trained 90 pro bono lawyers in Kenya who will take on around 1,000 cases as part of the Kenya resentencing project.
• Our resentencing project in Malaysia contributed to over 1,000 people receiving new sentences in Malaysia, following the abolition of the mandatory death penalty.

Our work does not stop here…

Throughout 2025, we will continue to strive to uphold justice and the rule of law, hold power to account, fight unlawful state abuses, and defend lives across the world. 

We will:  

• Limit the use of the death penalty across the world by undertaking investigations, casework and litigation on cases with the potential to create systemic change; 
• Engage institutions, governments, civil society, corporations and the public in the fight for abolition of the death penalty and extreme human rights abuses worldwide. 
• Stop ongoing rendition, unlawful detention, torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment associated with “counter-terrorism” and “national security. 
• Shine a light on UK complicity in abuses, and expose and challenge government policies which may lead to abuses. 

We are truly privileged to work alongside an incredible team of staff, partners, lawyers, campaigners, investigators and supporters from around the world. Together, we are achieving meaningful change for our clients, and effectively challenging the wider systems that enabled the abuses they face. Thank you for your support.