Dominica
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 · Dominica was a cosponsor of the amendments presented...
- News items in the archive
- 36
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Dominica 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 36 news items on Dominica, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JANUARY 1, 2001DominicaDEATH PENALTY
Dominica is a British Independent Territory that retains...
Dominica is a British Independent Territory that retains the death penalty and for which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council remains the final court of appeal
- DECEMBER 7, 2000DominicaDEATH PENALTY
Britain's parliamentary undersecretary of state in...
Britain's parliamentary undersecretary of state in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Baroness Patricia Scotland, said that Whitehall was committed to seeing through the implementation of the process of bringing the overseas territories under Britain's
- JUNE 28, 2000DominicaDEATH PENALTY
The High Court judge Dunbar Cenac sentenced Mwanga...
The High Court judge Dunbar Cenac sentenced Mwanga Freeman, 24, and Leroy Langford, 31, to hang for the 1998 murder of Ossie Charles, 38
- JANUARY 1, 2000DominicaDEATH PENALTY
Dominica is a British Independent Territory that retains...
Dominica is a British Independent Territory that retains the death penalty and for which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council remains the final court of appeal
- JANUARY 1, 1999DominicaDEATH PENALTY
Dominica was a cosponsor of the amendments presented...
Dominica was a cosponsor of the amendments presented by Egypt (A/C
- JANUARY 1, 1999DominicaDEATH PENALTY
Dominica is a British Independent Territory that retains...
Dominica is a British Independent Territory that retains the death penalty and for which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council remains the final court of appeal