Patrick Mulvaney

As a 2008-2009 Reprieve Fellow, Patrick will work at the Southern Center for Human Rights to represent people on death row in Alabama who otherwise would not have an attorney.

Patrick previously worked for at the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, tracking executions and organising opposition to capital punishment, and at The Nation magazine, where he edited an online forum on the juvenile death penalty.

Patrick studied journalism at New York University and law at the University of Pennsylvania.

As a law student, Patrick interned at the Southern Center for Human Rights, assisting with death penalty litigation, and at Reprieve in London, working on Guantánamo Bay and death penalty issues. 

The State of Alabama refuses to provide funding for death row prisoners in post-conviction proceedings and allows judges to impose death sentences even when the jury on the case has recommended that the defendant receive a life sentence instead.

Patrick will be defending death row prisoners in post-conviction proceedings in an attempt to deliver real justice and save individual lives.