Daniel Pascoe

Associate Professor of Law at @CityUHongKong focusing on crime & punishment in East and Southeast Asia. Personal website:

[Death Penalty Research Unit, Oxford @DPRUOxford]

Excellent new research paper by @DC_Pascoe and @drmaisato
#DeathPenalty & extra judicial #executions

[Delito y sociedad @DelitoySociedad]

📢Call for papers | INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - New right, authoritarianism and penality.

Law School, Universidad de A Coruña, España

📌 27-28 de agosto de 2025

📍 Envío de abstracts hasta: 15 de abril de 2025 | Envía tu propuesta a: [email protected]

[Luiz Dal Santo @dalsantolp]

🚨Fifth International Conference Punishment in Global Peripheries🚨

Call for papers! Send us your abstract by 15 April

📍Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦
🗓️11-13 December 2025

[Daniel Pascoe @DC_Pascoe]

@ajarrodkimber on both counts it'd probably have to be "dot ball" not four

[Daniel Pascoe @DC_Pascoe]

https://t.co/ZgbX1sJnZv.

Amnesty, rather than clemency, is the right choice for Indonesia's political prisoners, and for those who perceive themselves as such. I have written about this previously:
https://t.co/tN4WwzjLlc

[Daniel Pascoe @DC_Pascoe]

In this case, the executive proposes an amnesty decree, seeks the views of the legislature, likely disregards these, and proceeds as initially planned. For clemency, the Supreme Court's advice is more important as the proposal begins from below, with the prisoner him/herself.

[Daniel Pascoe @DC_Pascoe]

https://t.co/NuvLeY8HMK

This one is interesting because it says something about where power lies in Indonesian politics. The Indonesian Constitution (Art 14) states that the president grants amnesty after considering the advice of the legislature 1/2

[Daniel Pascoe @DC_Pascoe]

on the other hand, the mooted resumption of executions won't help Indonesian citizens sentenced to death abroad at all. A significant way for Prabowo to help these people is to continue Indonesia's moratorium at home.

[Daniel Pascoe @DC_Pascoe]

https://t.co/fJp82Sv0R3
https://t.co/RhUTFla5YM
https://t.co/7Lq7iEdbql

These cases seem to have benefited from bespoke (MLA) agreements given that Indonesia doesn't yet have a formal prison transfer law for foreigners. The optics may yet help Indonesians imprisoned abroad.

[Daniel Pascoe @DC_Pascoe]

Presidential Amnesty, her other procedural option, tends to be granted for different reasons altogether: to reward previous service to the nation. But it's not unusual in death penalty cases. 2/2

[Daniel Pascoe @DC_Pascoe]

https://t.co/tTcvf1ogd9

This case has attracted much attention. Article 40(3) of the Vietnamese Penal Code does not impose a time limit on Truong's repayment of three-quarters of the embezzled funds. Indeed, the purpose is to maximise the return of state assets. 1/2

[Daniel Pascoe @DC_Pascoe]

Well done Zim! https://t.co/ei5wBetMwe

[Daniel Pascoe @DC_Pascoe]

New published research with Noam Zamir:
"Situating Hong Kong’s ‘Rule of Law’ Internationally" Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law, forthcoming
https://t.co/pAyMJ8r6G6 (paywalled)

Send me a message if you would like the PDF version.

[Daniel Pascoe @DC_Pascoe]

A timely move by Biden, although I can't help thinking that by not commuting 3 federal death sentences he is giving Trump the green light to execute those prisoners. If you are going to oppose the death penalty in principle, you have to do it across all cases, no matter what.

[Robert Dunham @RDunhamDP]

Here is a copy of President Biden's Executive Grant of Clemency commuting the sentences of 37 federal death row prisoners to sentences of life without parole. #CommuteTheRow #deathpenalty

[Daniel Pascoe @DC_Pascoe]

@TheEconomist or Bahasa Indonesia!

[Daniel Pascoe @DC_Pascoe]

Death Penalty News: USA | Biden - clear death row before Trump returns https://t.co/Yy4g2dvpLw

[Daniel Pascoe @DC_Pascoe]

New published open-access research: https://t.co/2IQgYzzI4Z @andrewjnovak

[Daniel Pascoe @DC_Pascoe]

@AusCGHK @AUSOlympicTeam @LammaMatthew

[Daniel Pascoe @DC_Pascoe]

https://t.co/tNaY1KXy3F

Well done Tonga. Death penalty is not the way.

[Daniel Pascoe @DC_Pascoe]

Time to start some *actual* classes and be done with this.