BARBADOS ‘TO ABOLISH MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY’

Barbados is to abolish the mandatory death penalty before the end of the year in keeping with an Inter-American human rights court decision, Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite said. But Brathwaite stressed in an interview with the paper that the death penalty would remain on the statute books, though he acknowledged that there was less of a chance that convicted murderers would be hanged. The death penalty has not been carried out here in nearly 27 years.