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Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago

the next few days the Congress of Trinidad and Tobago will discuss amendments to the Constitution which could put at risk of execution the dozens of people who are on death row. The new legislation aims to restart executions, which have had no place in the country since 1999.

[...] The bill, if approved in its current form, will the dozens of people currently on death row at serious risk of imminent execution, in violation of the laws and international standards on human rights.
legislation, in fact, would carry out the death sentences while they are still appeals pending before international bodies.

The [...] bill also would allow authorities to circumvent a 1993 ruling of the highest court of appeal for Trinidad and Tobago, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London. That ruling held that a delay of more than five years in implementing a death sentence is cruel and inhumane. If the bill is approved, people will in future be sentenced to death can be executed even if they remained on death row for more than five years.

[Amnesty]

[Cain]