Privy Council Decision on Jamaica Death Row Inmates Results in Death Row Reprieve in Trinidad and Threats in Barbados

The recent decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the Earl Pratt and Ivan Morgan cases already has had an impact in the implementation of death penalty cases in the Commonwealth Caribbean. On December 10, 1993, during the 45th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a UN-sponsored International Human Rights Day, Trinidad and Tobago Attorney General Keith Sobion announced a reprieve for 50 condemned murderers who have been on death row awaiting executing for longer than five years…[more]