Guyana
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 · Guyana is a British Independent territory that retains...
- News items in the archive
- 73
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Guyana 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 73 news items on Guyana, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- MARCH 25, 2024GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
GUYANA MAINTAINS STANCE ON DEATH PENALTY
In a recent address to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC), Guyana reiterated its stance on the contentious issue of the death penalty, CNW reported on March 20, 2024.
DECEMBER 19, 2023GuyanaDEATH PENALTYGUYANA: HIGH COURT JUDGE SENTENCED FIVE MEN TO DEATH FOR BRUTAL 2016 PIRACY ATTACK
Justice Sandil Kissoon of the High Court in Guyana on December 14, 2023 sentenced five men to death for the 2016 piracy attack that claimed the lives of four fishermen.
- FEBRUARY 6, 2023GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
GUYANA COURT SENTENCES TWO PIRATES TO DEATH FOR 2018 ATTACK
A Guyanese court on 31 January 2023 handed down death sentences for two men found guilty of high seas piracy attacks that killed seven fishermen off the nation’s coast in 2018.
DECEMBER 28, 2022GuyanaDEATH PENALTYGUYANA: COURT OF APPEAL REFUSES TO DECLARE THE DEATH PENALTY UNCONSTITUTIONAL
The Court of Appeal in Guyana on 22 December 2022 overturned three death sentences and replaced them with life sentences but declined to strike down the death penalty as unconstitutional.
JUNE 15, 2022GuyanaDEATH PENALTYGUYANA: DEATH PENALTY AMONG SENTENCES FOR MEN WHO MURDERED CORENTYNE FATHER
Justice Sandil Kissoon, on 8 June 2022, sentenced in Guyana five Berbice men for the murder of Corentyne phone card vendor Danian Anthony Jagdeo, who was gunned down during a robbery in 2017.
MAY 8, 2021GuyanaDEATH PENALTYGUYANA: COURT UPHOLDS WIFE KILLER’S CONVICTION BUT SETS ASIDE DEATH SENTENCE
The Guyana Court of Appeal on 7 May 2021 upheld the conviction of Rupert Browne for the 2011 murder of his common-law wife, Seema Singh, but set aside the death sentence imposed upon him.
- JANUARY 1, 2020GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
Murder and treason are capital crimes.
Murder and treason are capital crimes.
MARCH 5, 2019GuyanaDEATH PENALTYGUYANA: POMEROON MINER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING PENSIONER
Kenrick Lyte of Good Intent, Lower Pomeroon River, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) was found guilty of murder on 27 February 2019 by a 12-member jury at the Suddie, Essequibo Coast, High Court.
- JANUARY 1, 2019GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
Murder and treason are capital crimes.
Murder and treason are capital crimes.
MARCH 30, 2018GuyanaDEATH PENALTYGUYANA: TWO WOMEN SENTENCED TO DEATH
In Guyana, two women were sentenced to death by Justice Sandil Kissoon in the Berbice High Court.
- JANUARY 1, 2018GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
Murder and treason are capital crimes.
Murder and treason are capital crimes.
FEBRUARY 2, 2017GuyanaDEATH PENALTYGUYANA: TWO BARTICA MASSACRE ACCUSED SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING
Almost 9 years after the horrific Bartica massacre, gang members Mark Royden Williams, called ‘Durant’
- JANUARY 1, 2017GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
Murder and treason are capital crimes.
Murder and treason are capital crimes.
- JANUARY 1, 2016GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
Murder and treason are capital crimes.
Murder and treason are capital crimes.
- JANUARY 1, 2015GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
Murder and treason are capital crimes.
Murder and treason are capital crimes.
- OCTOBER 31, 2014GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
Robert Browne was sentenced to death this month for murder in Guyana.
Robert Browne was sentenced to death this month for murder in Guyana.
- JANUARY 1, 2014GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
Murder and treason are capital crimes.
Murder and treason are capital crimes.
- JULY 2, 2013GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
three Guyanese soldiers found guilty of abducting a gold miner
three Guyanese soldiers found guilty of abducting a gold miner
FEBRUARY 14, 2013GuyanaDEATH PENALTYGUYANA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDERER OF 17-YEAR-OLD
In Guyana, a Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice tractor operator who was on trial at the High Court
JANUARY 16, 2013GuyanaDEATH PENALTYGUYANA: SIX DEATH ROW INMATES’ SENTENCE COMMUTED TO LIFE
Six Death Row inmates had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment in Guyana. The
- JANUARY 2, 2013GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
GUYANA: DEATH ROW INMATE GETS SENTENCE COMMUTED
In Guyana, Attorney-at-law Nigel Hughes was able to have his client, Oral Hendricks’ sentence
- JANUARY 1, 2013GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
Murder and treason are capital crimes.
Murder and treason are capital crimes.
- OCTOBER 31, 2012GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
in Guyana, a Rose Hall Town man was sentenced to death...
in Guyana, a Rose Hall Town man was sentenced to death...
- AUGUST 7, 2012BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES URGED TO IMPOSE MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY
The Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has called on several Caribbean
- JULY 13, 2012GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
GUYANA: SAME SEX DECRIMINALISATION, ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY AND CORPORAL PUNISHMENT FOR PARLIAMENT - GOV'T
In Guyana, the government has decided to take the ticklish issues of the abolition of the death penalty
JUNE 4, 2012GuyanaDEATH PENALTYGUYANA: DEATH SENTENCES OF 4 PRISONERS COMMUTED
A judge in Guyana commuted the death sentences of four prisoners, saying their protracted
- APRIL 3, 2012GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
Guyana is launching a national debate on whether to eliminate...
Guyana is launching a national debate on whether to eliminate...
- JANUARY 1, 2012GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
Murder and treason are capital crimes.
Murder and treason are capital crimes.
- JULY 8, 2011GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
GUYANA: ESSEQUIBO MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING BROTHER
Janaite Lall, alias ‘Sunil,’ of Walton Hall, Essequibo Coast, was sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of his brother and was by Justice Franklin Holder, at the Suddie High Court in Guyana.
- JANUARY 5, 2011GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
GUYANA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING FATHER
in Guyana, Justice Dawn Gregory-Barnes sentenced Gowkarran ‘Silence’ Ramdayal, 25, to death for bludgeoning his father Bhowan Ramdayal on October 10, 2007, with a piece of iron in an argument money. The father died on January 16, 2008.