Tony Briggs and Wenceslaus James, who were scheduled to be executed on 4 August 1998, have received a stay of execution pending the outcome of their constitutional ...
Tony Briggs and Wenceslaus James are due to be hanged on 4 August 1998 after being found guilty of murder. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the ...
1. Call for moratorium on executions; 2. Special Rapporteur calls for laws to protect mentally retarded: Attacks use of death penalty in USA; 3. Special Rapporteur ...
1. Georgia becomes 100th abolitionist country; 2. Jamaica: Executions feared after withdrawal from human rights protocol; 3. Trinidad & Tobago: Possible expansion ...
The Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago reportedly annouced that those convicted of rape may soon face the death penalty. The extension of the death penalty ...
1. Executions continue in Ukraine and Russia; 2. Afghanistan: Prisoner publicly executed by victim's husband; 3. South Korea: Constitutional Court rules death penalty ...
The government of Trinidad and Tobago is attempting to pass legislation which would amend the country's constitution and allow it to carry out executions currently ...
Michael Wanzar, Kenneth Teesdale, Raffick Sahadath, Elvis Penny, Franklyn Gonzales: Amnesty International has learned that the death sentences of the above prisoners ...