Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Caribbean countries urged to impose moratorium on capital punishment

The Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has called on several Caribbean countries, including Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados, to impose a moratorium in the application of the death penalty.

In a statement to coincide with the release of its latest publication titled “The Death Penalty in the Inter-American Human Rights System: From Restrictions to Abolition”, the IACHR said that it had examined the death penalty situation in nine-member states during the last

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