Senior Staff Attorney

About Reprieve US:

Reprieve US is a registered 501(c)(3) assisting victims of extreme human rights abuses carried out by governments. We are made up of lawyers, investigators, and advocates helping people face detention without trial, execution and extra judicial execution. We are a small team but we are fearless in our fight for justice.

We work closely with our sibling organization, Reprieve, a UK charity founded in 1999. Reprieve US uses strategic interventions to end the use of the death penalty globally and to end extreme human rights abuses carried out in the name of “counterterrorism” or “national security”.

The Role:

Reprieve US is seeking a Senior Staff Attorney to join its innovative US Death Penalty Project. This ground-breaking initiative is centered on preventing the misuse of medicines in executions and supporting individual cases, and has contributed to the long-term decline in capital punishment in the US (read more here: https://lethalinjectioninfo.org/).

The attorney will be responsible for investigating current and future lethal injection drug execution methods, including the source and supply chain of drugs. They will progress creative litigation in state and federal courts, including working with local partners to support Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), First Amendment, and 28 U.S.C. § 1983 method-of- execution challenges.

The attorney will maintain and develop relationships with stakeholders to advance Reprieve US’ death penalty work on a state and national level, including: capital defense attorneys, partner organizations, business representatives, journalists, diplomats, and funders. They will support on individual cases that touch upon method of execution issues and assist foreign nationals on death row in the US and their consulates.

They will also support non-litigation advocacy activities related to the US death penalty, including public education and advocacy to expose the myth of the humane execution and highlight the negative consequences of lethal injection and secrecy for business, public health, and taxpayers.

The successful candidate is excited to use a range of different tools to achieve systemic change. The candidate will be creative, detail-oriented, and fully committed to Reprieve US’s position on the death penalty.

The attorney will join a dynamic team of lawyers working at Reprieve US, and become part of a wider group of international lawyers, investigators, and campaigners at Reprieve who work globally against the death penalty.

For more information, please visit the full job description: https://reprieve.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/05/Senior-Staff-Attorney.pdf