CONFIDENTIAL
ANNEX
A Current Practice
Capital Punishment for murder is retained in the following Dependent
Territories:
Territories
| Anguilla
Bermuda
| British Virgin
Last
Current
Invoked
Murder Cases
1967
1
1977
2
Islands
I
1972
2
Cayman Islands
1928
5
| Hong Kong
I
1966
10*
Montserrat
|
1961
| Turks and Caicos
|
Islands
1946
1
|
for murder over last 3
*Figure based on an average of convictions
years.
In the independent Commonwealth countries of the Caribbean where
capital punishment is retained the position is:-
Numbers on
Country
Last Invoked
Death Row
| Antigua | Bahamas
|
1989
2
I n/a
|
12
|
| Barbados
|
1984
12
I
Dominica
|
1986
13
I
| Grenada
I
1978
22
| Guyana
1
1988
| 22
1
Jamaica
1988
| 253
I
St Kitts
| 1985
1
| St Lucia
| 1986
St Vincent
Trinidad
1987
4
I
1989
| 92
I
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