Antigua & Barbuda
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist de facto
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Antigua and Barbuda is a British Independent territory...
- News items in the archive
- 39
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Antigua & Barbuda is classified as Abolitionist de facto in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 39 news items on Antigua & Barbuda, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- OCTOBER 15, 2000Antigua & BarbudaDEATH PENALTY
Britain claimed it would attempt to stop Antigua executing...
Britain claimed it would attempt to stop Antigua executing Steadroy McDougal
- OCTOBER 10, 2000Antigua & BarbudaDEATH PENALTY
Steadroy McDougal, 32, was sentenced to death for killing...
Steadroy McDougal, 32, was sentenced to death for killing his ex-girlfriend Louise Torrens, a 24-year-old woman from Stirlingshire, at Christmas 1998 and Mitchell Melius, a companion of Torrens from nearby St Lucia
- JANUARY 26, 2000Antigua & BarbudaDEATH PENALTY
Justice Ephrain Georges, a High Court judge granted...
Justice Ephrain Georges, a High Court judge granted a stay of execution to five convicted murderers scheduled to hang during the week
- JANUARY 1, 2000Antigua & BarbudaDEATH PENALTY
Antigua and Barbuda is a British Independent territory...
Antigua and Barbuda is a British Independent territory for which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council remains the final court of appeal
- NOVEMBER 11, 1999Antigua & BarbudaDEATH PENALTY
On November 11, at the Third Committee under the above...
On November 11, at the Third Committee under the above item 116a, Ambassador Lewis, again speaking on behalf of the Caribbean Community said, "International law did not prohibit the death penalty
- NOVEMBER 3, 1999Antigua & BarbudaDEATH PENALTY
On November 3, at the Third Committee of the General...
On November 3, at the Third Committee of the General Assembly (human rights) under item 116a (death penalty), First Secretary Aqeel Akbar said any State has the right to determine the punishment, or lack of it, for the commission of a crime violating its
- OCTOBER 20, 1999Antigua & BarbudaDEATH PENALTY
On October 20, at the Third Committe of the General...
On October 20, at the Third Committe of the General Assembly under item 107 on crime prevention and criminal justice, speaking on behalf of the member States of the Caribbean Community - Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint
- JULY 22, 1999Antigua & BarbudaDEATH PENALTY
Antigua and Barbuda signed the letter, dated 22 July...
Antigua and Barbuda signed the letter, dated 22 July 1999, addressed to the President of the Economic and Social Council, in which the retentionist countries dissociated from the Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/61 on the question of the death p
- JANUARY 1, 1999Antigua & BarbudaDEATH PENALTY
Antigua and Barbuda is a British Independent territory...
Antigua and Barbuda is a British Independent territory for which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council remains the final court of appeal