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Capital Punishment And Onternational And National Courts

Capital Punishment and International and National Courts



Around the world we travel in this paper, which reviews the attitude of courts worldwide regarding the death penalty.



By way of international courts, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC), in a judgement which may have far-reaching consequences on death penalty cases in the English-speaking Caribbean, commuted the death sentences of six convicted prisoners in Jamaica on 12 September. The JCPC which serves as the final appeal court for English-speaking Caribbean countries such as Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and the Bahamas, ruled that it is...

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