Welcome to Reprieve Australia

Reprieve Australia works against the death penalty.  It aims to provide effective legal representation and humanitarian assistance to those facing the death penalty, to advocate against the death penalty and to raise awareness about human rights.

Established in Melbourne, Australia in May 2001, Reprieve Australia conducts volunteer programs at home and abroad, including sending Australians to defend clients facing the death penalty.  It also produces a newsletter and news updates, conducts awareness raising events and works with other organisations which fight against the death penalty.

News and Events

06 Oct 2008

Reprieve supports preventing return of the death penalty

Please take five minutes to send an email in support of Federal Labor backbencher and Government Whip, Chris Hayes, who is sponsoring a motion in the House of Representatives calling for a legislative bar to the reintroduction of the death penalty in Australia... More

30 Sep 2008

Reprieve makes recommendation on permanent board of inquiry

In 1922, Colin Campbell Ross was hanged in Melbourne Gaol for murdering 12 year old Alma Tirtschke. Thanks to the efforts of journalist Kevin Morgan and the Ross and Tirtschke families, he has recently been proven innocent of the crime and this year was officially pardoned posthumously by the Governor of Victoria on the recommendation of the Premier. This prompted Reprieve Australia to write to... More

01 Sep 2008

Inaugural Reprieve Lecture

Speech to be given by His Honour Justice Lasry on 9 October 2008... More