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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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