What is it about?
The various techniques employed by anti-death penalty advocates to prevent the execution of persons convicted of capital offences.
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Why is it important?
The work captures the legal-political landscape in the Commonwealth Caribbean in the immediate aftermath of the landmark Pratt and Morgan judgment in 1993 that altered the way the death penalty would be carried out in the Commonwealth Caribbean.
Perspectives
This work really highlighted how it can be possible to have laws that exist and are yet unenforceable because of their constructive abolition by a cascading judicial interpretation that finds new means to give effect to an abolitionist agenda on the death penalty. The Judiciary is heading in one direction on the death penalty in the Commonwealth Caribbean and the Executive is heading in the opposite direction on the same subject.
Dr Hamid A Ghany
University of the West Indies
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This page is a summary of: The death penalty, human rights and British law lords: Judicial opinion on delay of execution in the commonwealth Caribbean, The International Journal of Human Rights, June 2000, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13642980008406874.
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